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The MISSIONARY BOARD takes pleasure in pre- 


senting to you, free of charge, this book in order to better 
acquaint you with the various phases of the missionary 


work in foreign fields and to solicit your prayers and help. 


LOOK ON THE FIELDS 


A Brief Description of the 
FOREIGN MISSIONARY WORK OF THE CHURCH OF GOD 


Profusely Illustrated 


Showing Operations in Japan, China, Fiji Islands, 
Australia, India, Egypt, Syria, Europe, British West Indies, 
Canal Zone and South America 


BY .FatGr oMi GLH 


MISSIONARY “BOARD OF THE CHURCH’ OF GOD 
ANDERSON, INDIANA, U. S. A. 
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Sewt Does 


CANDIDATES FOR THE MISSIONARY FIELD ASSEMBLED AT ANDERSON, IND., 1920 


Some of this number have already entered the foreign service; others are waiting the time when they, too, can depart 
for lands across the sea. 

Think what such devotion means to this intelligent body of .,»oung men and wemen—willingness to sacrifice time, talents, 
worldly prospects, relatives, yea, life itself, in the world-wide effort to make Christ known. What a noble ambition! What 
an example to the church! 


PAGE TWO 


[ INTRODUCTION 
 ———— 


Pel ig ae up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they 

are white already to harvest.” These are the 
words of our Savior, uttered nineteen centuries ago. How 
appropriate their application to the work of foreign mis- 
sions! How important it is that we really look! For 
knowledge of conditions in the world is absolutely essential 
if we are to realize our duty and feel our responsibility. 


WHY THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN 


For several months prior to the annual camp-meeting 
of the church held at Anderson, Ind., in June, 1919, the 
Missionary Board felt the necessity of sending a dele- 
gation of its members on a missionary inspection-tour, 
in order to study on the field the various missionary 
mcihods employed and to obtain first-hand information 
concerning the condition and prospects of our own work. 
Such knowledge within the Board was deemed essential 
for the proper guidance of its future operations. 

The ministers of the church endorsed the project, and 
so E. A. Reardon and I were selected for the undertak- 
ing, since both of us had had some previous missionary 
experience in foreign lands. We left home on July 4, 
1919, and visited, in order, Japan, China, the Philippines, 
Australia, India, Egypt, Syria and Palestine, returning 


by way of France and the British Isles. We reached 
home on the 22d day of May, 1920, having traveled over 
forty-six thousand miles. God graciously protected us 
and kept us in health during these months of the most 
strenuous activity. In every field we were welcomed by 
our missionaries with joy and gladness, and we shall 
never forget the precious seasons spent with them. Per- 
sonally, we are very thankful to God that we were per- 
mitted thus to “look on the fields.” 

When our special reports, together with suggestive 
plans for the organization and conduct of our missionary 
work, were placed before the Missionary Board, the Board 
was convinced that the trip had been very profitable. 
Many of these suggestions have already been adopted 
and put into practical operation. 

During our trip abroad we entertained no idea of writ- 
ing a book of travels; but after our return there arose 
an insistent demand that the church, which had supplied 
funds for the undertaking, should receive a direct benefit 
therefrom; that by means of a published work on the 
subject of missions they also should be permitted to “look 
on the fields.” Being convinced that this request was 
reasonable and that the information would enlighten thou- 
sands who are comparatively uninformed concerning what 

PAGE THREE 


MISSIONARIES AT THE ANDERSON CAMP-MEETING, JUNE, 1920 


Years of strenuous service abroad, in trying climates and under difficult conditions, 
make cecasional furloughs necessary. 

We appreciate these visits of the missionaries because of the benefit that renewed 
association with the brethren brings to them and to their work, and because of the en- 
lightenment and inspiration their lectures impart to the churches of the saints. 

Welcome home! 

PAGE FOUR 


is actually being done on the for- 
eign fields, thus arousing new zeal 
and stimulating fresh missionary 
activity, we have prepared this 
book, and we now send it forth 
with a prayer that God’s blessings 
will accompany it and that it will 
prove an inspiration to many souls 
who love the Lord Jesus and who 
are anxious to do all they can to 
extend his kingdom on earth. In 
writing this work I have not 
placed special emphasis upon the 
trip feature, but upon the mission- 
ary work itself; for convenience, 
however, I have arranged the sub- 
ject-matter in the order of our 
westward trip around the world. 


Many of the photographs used 
in making the cuts shown herein, 
were taken by us; but in certain 
respects our missionary work is 
not as fully represented as it could 
have been had we known in ad- 
vance that such a book would 
be published. Lack of suitable 
photographs, as well as lack of 
space, accounts for the omission 
of pictures of a number of per- 
sons, also of many chapels, con- 


gregations, and Sunday-schools, worthy of a place among 
those that are shown. 


THE WORLD-WIDE TASK 


“Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to 
every creature,” is a divine mandate to the church of God. 
It is the church’s marching orders. The presence in the 
world of hundreds of millions of heathen who have never 
heard of the Christ, furnishes unmistakable proof that the 
church in past ages has not fulfilled her mission. Better 
things are expected of the church of the present and of 
the future. A solemn obligation rests upon us today, and 
we should gird ourselves as best we can for the world task. 

Christ must be made known to all the earth. Does this 
task appear impossible? From the human point of view its 
proportions are staggering; but when we consider the 
omnipotent power of him who said, “I am with you alway, 
even unto the end of the world,” we realize that no task 
is too great to be accomplished. 

In addition to the consciousness of the ever-present 
Christ working mightily in the hearts and lives of his 
faithful followers, three things encourage our belief in 
the final victory of truth over all the false systems of 
heathen darkness—past triumphs, present accomplish- 
ments, and the future promises and prophesies of the 
divine Word. 

What is the lesson of the past? When God called 
Abraham to become the founder of a new nation, the 
world lay in the darkest heathenism. Israel, during all 
the days of their history, were face to face with pagan- 


ism, sometimes yielding temporarily to its power, but 
always recovering themselves, until finally they overcame 
forever its blightmg influences. Then came Christianity. 
Outside the narrow confines of Judaism, the emissaries 
of the cross faced a pagan world. Soon the powers of 
heathenism began to tremble. Ephesus is only an ex- 
ample of this result when its throngs of devotees, maddened 
by the inroads made by the gospel, cried vehemently, 
“Great is Diana of the Ephesians.” According to the 
testimony of Pliny the Younger, before the close of the 
first century the temples of the gods in Asia Minor were 
almost forsaken. Within three centuries the entire sys- 
tem collapsed, so that Constantinople proclaimed Chris- 
tianity as the religion of the Roman Empire. 


Heathenism has always gine down before the march 
of the God of the whole earth. What remains today of 
the vast system of idolatry formerly enthroned in Baby- 
lon? Nothing. And what of Pers.a? of Greece? Ger- 
mania? Scandinavia? or the thirty thousand gods of 
Egypt? or the uncounted divinities of the Romans? Not 
a living worshiper have they on the earth. 

And what of the present? Lack of space prevents 
adequate treatment of this subject, showing present indi- 
cations favorable to the triumph of Christ’s cause in the 
earth. Suffice it to say that the systems of heathenism 
existing in Japan, China, India, and elsewhere, are being 
slowly, but surely, undermined. ‘The principles of the 
gospel preached by devoted missionaries are taking effect 
upon thoughtful, forward-looking minds. It is not too 
much to say that the men of the greatest intellects, the 

PAGE FIVE 


clearest thinkers, and the ablest leaders in the heathen 
world today are so thoroughly imbued with Christian 
principles and Christian ethics that they are actually 
turning their own people away from their old standards ; 
in fact, great numbers of these leaders have openly em- 
braced the Christian faith. 

All the forces of modern civilization are having a tre- 
mendous influence on the pagan world. Heathen religions, 
associated as they usually are with incredible tales and 
popular superstitions, can not stand the light of educa- 
tional and intellectual progress, and they are being driven 
more and more into the shadows and are obliged to take 
refuge in the darker corners of the earth. God is making 
use of every agency, missionary or otherwise, in order to 
break down the false systems that stand in the way of his 
gospel. Thousands of people who still observe the out- 
ward forms of worship common to their country and peo- 
ple are secret believers in Jesus, and they would gladly 
come over to the Christian faith if it were not for the 
many seeming impossible barriers in the way. Where 
favorable opportunities present themselves, as in certain 
parts of India, whole villages, numbering thousands, are 
ready to vow openly the faith of Christ. 

Then think of the future promises and prophecies! 
“Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; . . . behold, thy 
King cometh unto thee. . . . And he shall speak peace 
unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea even 
to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth” 
(Zech. 9:9, 10). “For from the rising of the sun even 
unto the going down of the same my name shall be great 
PAGE SIX 


among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be 
offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name 
shall be great among the heathen, saith the Lord of hosts” 
(Malet 115 

“And the Lord alone shall be exalted m that day. And 
the idols he shall utterly abolish. And they shall go into 
the holes of the rocks and into the caves of the earth, for 
fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when 
he ariseth to shake terribly the earth. In that day a man 
shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which 
they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles 
and to the bats” (Isa. 2:17-20). “The Lord will be 
terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the 
earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his 
place, even all the isles of the heathen” (Zeph. 2:11). 

Let us as a people be encouraged to do our part in 
bringing about this glorious overthrow of heathenism. It 
is not our work alone; for God is employing every agency 
of modern civilization—whether Christian or not—to 
bring about this final result. But the world needs more 
than the overthrow of idolatry; it needs the gospel in its 
purity, and this we must be prepared to give. To what- 
ever degree God has blessed us with the light and knowl- 
edge of his will and Word, to that extent we are responsi- 
ble. We have a work to do. Let us be up and doing. 


BEGINNINGS OF OUR MISSIONARY WORK 


In the early part of this religious movement the char- 
acter of the work accomplished was reformative rather 
than missionary, attention being given almost exclusively 


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to the correction of errors and abuses that had arisen in 
connection with historic Christianity. Within a few years, 
however, the scope of the movement began to widen. God 
began to impress upon his ministers the fact that in 
addition to being reformers working on the basis of a 
Christian civilization, they must also, if they were to be 
truly apostolic, become missionary in character, by labor- 
ing to plant the Christian faith in the “regions beyond.” 

A number of ministers made their way to England and 
some of the Continental countries; but since these par- 
ticular countries are not missionary fields, we must regard 
the efforts put forth as evangelistic, the same as if per- 
formed in our own country. 

About the first circumstance in the series of events that 
began to awaken the church to the needs of the heathen 
lands occurred in the year 1897. At that time a terrible 
famine was raging in India and the sympathies of the 
American people were aroused. The brethren raised a 
liberal contribution, and then sent a representative to 
India to see that it was properly distributed. About that 
time, or perhaps a year earlier, Bro. John A. D. Kahn, 
who was a student in the Calcutta University, received a 
catalog from the Gospel Trumpet Company and _ pur- 
chased some of the literature. Correspondence between 
him and some of the brethren in America developed, and 
in 1897 we sent over a half-ton of books and tracts for 
distribution in India, we also sent two small printing- 
presses. Brother Kahn began publishing a paper. 

In 1903 Brother Kahn visited the United States. While 
here he wrote a book entitled India’s Millions. His writ- 
PAGE EIGHT 


ings and sermons did much to create missionary interest 
and zeal in the churches. When he returned to India, in 
1904, Bro. Geo. W. Bailey and wife, and Sister N. Evalyn 
Nichols, of Washington, went with him as missionaries. 
Bro. E. E. Byrum also accompanied them to India on his 
trip around the world, investigating conditions and seek- 
ing missionary openings. A number of other brethren 
were also instrumental in stirring up the church in the 
interest of missions, and soon a number of missionaries 
were at work in different. countries. In January, 1910, 
the first number of the Missionary Herald appeared, and 
this magazine accomplished a splendid work, but after 
two years it was discontinued, the missionary subject- 
matter being transferred to a special department of the 
Gospel ‘Trumpet. 


ORGANIZATION OF THE MISSIONARY BOARD 


Experience soon proved that the practise of mission- 
aries going out to various countries on their own respon- 
sibility and then appealing to the home church for sup- 
port was not satisfactory. The need of responsible over- 
sight of this phase of the church’s work was so keenly 
felt that at the general camp-meeting of the church of 
God, held at Anderson, Ind., in June, 1909, the ministerial 
assembly chose seven brethren to act as a missionary 
board, with the duty of ‘tadvising, instructing, encourag- 
ing, or restraining those who feel called to the foreign 
missionary field.” ‘They were also expected to collect and 
disburse the missionary funds of the church. Since that 
time the board has been increased to eleven members and 


has been organized under the laws of the State of Indiana 
as the Missionary Board of the Church of God. This 
latter step was necessary for legal safety and in order to 
hold property in foreign lands and to transact other 
business connected with the missionary enterprise. Mem- 
bers of the Board must be nominated by the general min- 
isterial assembly. 

The present members of the Board are: G. W. Bailey, 
Spokane, Wash.; J. W. Byers, Fresno, Cal.; E. E. Byrum, 
Anderson, Ind:; H. A. Brooks, Chicago, Ill.; J. W. Phelps, 
Anderson, Ind.; H. M. Riggle, Akron, Ind.; R. L. Berry, 
Mountain Grove, Mo.; E. A. Reardon, Anderson, Ind. ; 
John C. Blaney, Iron Hill, Quebec, Can.; F. G. Smith, 
Anderson, Ind.; and J. Grant Anderson, Franklin, Pa. 
The officers of the Board reside at Anderson, and they 
constitute an Executive Committee for the transaction of 
the regular business throughout the year, in accordance 
with the policies and regulations prescribed by the Board 
at the regular annual sessions, held at Anderson in June. 


COMPLICATED PROBLEMS OF THE BOARD 


To the casual observer it may appear that the duties 
of the Missionary Board are comparatively simple; but 
there is much more to do than merely determine the fit- 
ness of missionary candidates and to send money to other 
lands. The raising of a sufficient amount to send is at 
times a matter of deep concern to the Board. 

But the Missionary Board also feels concerned about 
how the money contributed by the church is spent, and 
this requires intelligent oversight and direction, the ad- 


ministration on a vast scale of that phase of missionary 
work which the home church undertakes and for which its 
representatives are directly responsible. ‘This adminis- 
trative work is especially difficult because it is carried 
on in remote lands, under varying conditions, among di- 
verse peoples and in different languages. Though pri- 
marily of a business nature, the work of the Board abroad 
has a direct relationship with church work, and must be 
made to harmonize with those principles of the truth per- 
taining to the spiritual freedom and autonomy of the local 
churches. Methods of missionary work must be decided, 
as well as questions concerning orphanages, day-schools, 
boarding-schools, industrial-schools, and  Bible-schools: 
translation and the publication of literature; purchase 
and safeguarding of property rights; fluctuating curren- 
cies; negotiations with foreign governments; matters con- 
cerning the health, homes, outfitting, allowances, and fur- 
loughs of the missionaries themselves, and other things. 
In order to conduct such a complicated work successfully, 
it is evident that the Board must have the confidence and 
support of the home church, and must include within its 
membership men of wide experience, men who are leaders 
of thought in the church both at home and abroad. And, 
furthermore, the Board must be a dependable organiza- 
tion, recognized by foreign governments and their accre- 
dited representatives in this country. 

Brethren who understand the perplexing nature of the 
work entrusted to the Missionary Board do not question 
the advisability of sending a delegation abroad occasion- 
ally in order to keep in close touch with these important 

PAGE NINE 


matters, so that it may oversee and conduct wisely the 
business in which the church is investing hundreds of 
thousands of dollars. 


POLICIES OF THE BOARD 


At its annual meeting, the Missionary Board gives atten- 
tion to the Budget for the coming year—deciding what 
will be required in order to make the work successful— 
after which the estimate is presented to the general min- 
isterial assembly for final 
decision. The Board also 
decides matters of policy 
affecting the work done by 
it. Some of these policies 
are very important and 
far-reaching in character. 
The clearest definition yet 
given of the  Board’s 
sphere of action, as dis- 
tinguished from the local church work in the various 
foreign countries, is that contained in a Resolution adopt- 
ed by the Missionary Board June 10, 1920. 

RESOLVED: That we adopt as our general foreign missionary 
policy the folowing— 


1. That the Missionary Board as an organized corporation is 
primarily a business concern; that its particular sphere of opera- 
tion is that of financial administration, as distinguished from the 
exercise of ecclesiastical jurisdiction, in the foreign countries in 
which we operate. 

2. That we recognize the principle of religious autonomy; that 
upon the churches of each country rests the primary obligation 
to support and direct their own work and to evangelize their own 


PAGE TEN 


PO eee Ome emo omooroorooroes 


One more revival, only one more, is needed— the revival 
of Christian stewardship; the consecration of the money-power 
of the church to God; and when that revival comes, the king- 
dom of God will come [to all men] in a day: you can no more 
prevent it than you can hold back the tides of the ocean. 


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people; that in our relation with them, we, as a Board, occupy the 
position of helper; and that while we are giving financial assist- 
ance temporarily to native workers, they are to be regarded as 
performing a work peculiarly their own, and not as the paid agents 
of a foreign corporation, doing its work. 

3. That financial authority and direction follow the line of 
financial responsibility; that financial authority on the mission- 
field is shared by the native church and by the Missionary Board 
in exact proporticn to the responsibility assumed by each, neither 
one having any executive control over the funds supplied by the 
other. 

4, That missionary funds supplied by this Board are to be ad- 
ministered through special rep- 
resentatives on the field who 
are under the direct authority 
and control of this Board. 


CONSTANT SUPPORT 
NECESSARY 


Missionary work is the 
work of the church. If 
financial administration in 
the local church at Jeru- 
salem, shortly after Pentecost, could not succeed until re- 
sponsible oversight of that phase of the work was fixed 
upon a board of seven men, it is evident that a missionary 
work today, scattered all over the earth and supported by 
churches widely distributed over this great country, can 
not possibly succeed unless responsibility for it is placed 
upon men who are prepared by knowledge and experience 
both to solve the problems involved and to administer the 
funds wisely. The Missionary Board has been made that 
responsible body, hence all missionary offerings should be 
sent direct to the Board, at Anderson, Ind. 


—Horace Bushnell. 


Bo os 


JoASP AGN 


‘eye Empire of Japan consists of a chain of islands 

lying along the eastern coast of Asia. These islands 
are said to number nearly four thousand, but only about 
five hundred of these are inhabited or have a coast line of 
more than two and one half miles. The remaining islands 
are mere rocks, some of which contain vegetation. The 
chief islands are five in number. The population of the 
Empire is about fifty-six millions. 

The limits of this booklet prohibit a description of 
Japan as a country—its topography, fauna, literature, 
arts and sciences, history, customs, and religions. Inci- 
dental reference to such things is all that can be expected 
in a work of this kind. General information concerning 
the country and its people can be obtained from numerous 
published works. 

Japan is a ripe field for missionary effort. Since the 
nation was opened to Western thought and civilization a 
little over a half century ago rapid changes have been 
taking place. All these things have an important bearing 
on the problem of missionary work. 

One of the most encouraging things in the general pros- 
pect is the fact that the progress of modern civilization is 
rapidly undermining the old superstitions and religious 
beliefs. Minds thus opened and enlarged are more readily 


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accessible to the gospel message. This is a distinct ad- 
vantage at the present time. But it is evident that in the 
natural course of events the reaction from the religious 
superstitions and practises of the past will lead the nation 
to skepticism and infidelity unless a 
preventative, such as the religion of 
our Lord Jesus Christ, appears on 
the scene with sufficient strength to 
counteract this tendency, by supply- 
ing the heartfelt need. It is said to 
be a fact even now that the majority 
of educated men and students pro- 
fess no religion whatsoever. 

Japan is a heathen na- 
tion. Shintoism and Budd- 
hism prevail. Shinto, “the 
way of the gods,” is a 
purely native 
cult and is a 
mild kind of 
ancestor- and 
hero - worship, 
which has come 
down from 


JAPAN PROPER 


PAGE ELEVEN 


primitive times. In 1903 it had 163,871 temples and 
shrines. It has about 14,000 gods before whom or some 


STATUE OF BUDDHA AT KAMAKURA 


of whom certain offerings are made from time to time 
PAGE TWELVE 


and certain ceremonious dances performed, and to whom 
prayers are addressed. 

Buddhism entered the country by way of Korea, in 
A. D. 522. It soon received imperial favor and was pro- 
claimed the state religion. Its gilded images, gorgeous 
temples, and ritualistic ceremonies appealed powerfully 
to the Japanese people. In 1908 there were 72,208 Budd- 
hist temples. Buddhism was disestablished in 1871, and 
there is now no state religion. Under the new constitution 
of 1879 absolute freedom of speech and freedom of reli- 
gious opinion and belief are guaranteed. 

When Commodore Perry visited Japan and concluded 


FUJI-SAN, THE SACRED MOUNTAIN OF JAPAN 


An extinct voleano, 12,365 feet high. Thousands of pilgrims, 
also many tourists, make the laborious ascent each year. 


a treaty with the Japanese, in 1854, from which time dates 
the opening of the country to Western civilization, a new 


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era dawned, and soon Protestant Christian. missionaries 
were at work there. At the present time Christianity has a 
good foothold, and the cause is gaining rapidly. 

When we visited Japan, in July and August, 1919, we 
were agreeably surprized to find a public sentiment not 
specially adverse to Christianity. Of course there are in- 
stances of opposition, and even of persecution; but these 
are not general. In striking contrast with condtions in 
most heathen countries, it makes no particular difference 


in Japan whether one becomes a Christian or not. Chris- 
tians do not lose their positions in business or in the 
government; neither, in most cases, are they estranged 
from their relatives or ostracized from the ordinary cir- 
cles of society in which they move. 


Our missionary work in Japan dates from the year 
1909, when Bro. J. D. Hatch, and Bro. W. G. Alexander 
and wife and daughter, Grace, went there as missionaries. 
Prior to that time Bro. A. U. Yajima, a converted Jap- 
anese, visited this country and was used of the Lord in 
building up among us an active interest in the work of 
the gospel in Japan. | 
Brother Yajima’s 
picture appears on 
page 17. 

Brother Hatch 
remained in Japan 
until 1916, when 
he was taken seri- 
ously ill. An effort 
was made to bring 
him back to the 
United States be- 
fore his death. He 
reached California 
in May, but died 
shortly afterward, 
June 17, at Reed- 
ley. He gave the 
last years of his 


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PAGE THIRTEEN 


life to Japan. His photograph is shown on page 93. 

The Alexanders labored in Japan for more than ten 
years before taking a furlough, Brother Yajima being a 
faithful helper. They located at a town named Musashi 
Sakai, in Tokyo Fu, about fifteen miles west of Tokyo, 
the capital of the Empire. Here Brother Alexander se- 
cured about two acres of land and built a private home, 
which became a sort of mis- 
sionary home when other 


workers were kindly ad- 
mitted. 
Immediately adjoining 


Brother Alexander’s prop- 
erty on the west is a com- 
modious mission house, 
chapel, and printing-plent 
combined. This building 
was also erected by Brother 
Alexander. Here Brother 
Yajima and his family live, 
together with the other 
workers in the publishing plant. The chief periodical is 
the Pure Gospel, published monthly in Japanese. With 
the regular edition of the paper is run a supplement de- 
signed for non-Christians. The plant also publishes 
tracts and can issue booklets up to ninety-six pages. 
Brother Yajima is editor of these publications, and in 
addition does pastoral work. 

The publication of pure gospel literature serves a use- 
ful purpose in the evangelization of any land. But in 
PAGE FOURTEEN 


W. G. Alexander Mrs. W. G. Alexander 


Japan there is a special opportunity in this respect 
owing to the high standard of literacy possessed by these 
people. In all probability 90 or 95 per cent of the people 
are able to read. As the English language is also taught 
in the schools there is a wide field for effectual service in 
the dissemination of English literature. This, however, 
can not take the place of literature in the vernacular, for 
religion will always appear 
as a foreign institution un- 
less it is presented in the 
language of the people. 


Much has been done al- 
ready in supplying Chris- 
tian literature in Japanese. 
The Bible, the most impor- 
tant of all books, has been 
translated and_ published. 
The Federated Missions 
have established a central 
publishing agency which 
_ issues books, booklets, and 
tracts of a general nature addressed to non-Christians 
and which can profitably be used by all evangelical Chris- 
tians in the prosecution of their work. 

In 1917 Sister Zuda Lee Chambers went to join our 
force in Japan and she has become a very efficient worker 
and is highly respected by the Japanese who know her, as 
well as by all others. Bro. John D. Crose and wife also 
sailed in 1919, and they are making good progress with 
the work in Tokyo. 


Grace Alexander 


The new mission house, located at 80 Hongo Street, 
Oiwake, Tokyo, is a fine accession to our work in Japan. 


W. G. ALEXANDER’S HOME AT MUSASHI SAKAT 


It was purchased in 1919. Prior to that time our work 
in the capital was quite insignificant, being limited to a 
smal] street-chapel or hall in one of the busy parts of the 
city, hemmed in by shops. This hall would accommodate 
only forty or fifty persons, although a number of others 
could stand in the open doorway to the street. While it 
is essential that Christ be preached in every place, and 
meetings in such localities bring the word of life to mul- 
titudes who would never hear of it otherwise, still it is 


evident to all who have had experience that missionary 
work in large cities can not be placed on the proper plane 
in the estimation of the better class of native citizens if 
it is confined to appeals to the ordinary mass of unen- 
lightened people. 

Our new mission house is situated in the center of the 
school district of Tokyo—a residential section. It would 
be difficult to find a better location. There is tram-car 
service to a point near by, but not directly in front of 
the building, so there is no trouble from noise. The build- 
ing is 86x48 feet, two stories. It contains fourteen 


MISSION HOUSE 


AT MUSASHI 


PAGE FIFTEEN 


rooms, besides a chapel 18 x 86, which seats comfortably 
about one hundred fifty persons. By decreasing the num- 


PUBLISHING WORK AT MUSASHI SAKAI 


ber of living-rooms to eleven, the chapel can easily be en- 
larged when necessary to accommodate three hundred per- 
sons. This home, as well as the missionary home at Mu- 
sashi Sakai, page 15, has been paid for by the church in 
America, and is controlled by the Missionary Board for 
the benefit of the work in Japan. 

The mission house in Tokyo furnishes an excellent op- 
portunity for work among the students, the class in whom 
lies the future hope of Japan. ‘These students are very 
much interested in the English language and many can 
PAGE SIXTEEN 


by this means be drawn to Bible-classes and English 
classes and thus be won to Christ. It opens the way for 
contact with the brightest minds in the country. There 
is no better place to begin than with the intelligent, open 
minds of the rising generation who are enrolled in the in- 
stitutions of learning. 

We not only have an opportunity to gather in the stu- 
dents, but that kind of work is actually being done, with 
much success, by our missionaries. Many of the students 
have already given themselves to the Lord, and are earnest 
and devoted. Many others are interested and are attend- 
ing the regular services held in the mission. Here are 


BAPTISMAL CANDIDATES 


IN TOKYO, 1920 


A, U. YAJIMA AND FAMILY 


bright prospects for future native ministers and workers. 
Let us pray that God will bring out into the truth those 
who can become real apostles and evangelists of the Chris- 
tian faith, men who can be useful in planting the truth 
among their fellow countrymen. 

There is also no difficulty in gathering into Sinday- 
school and special services large numbers of children. In 
striking contrast with conditions prevailing in almost all 
other heathen lands, there seems to be very little opposi- 
tion to work of this kind. Parents even send their chil- 
dren to these meetings. It matters not if they are taught 


Christianity and come home singing “Jesus songs”—the 
relatives even join with them in singing. Such oppor- 
tunities should not be passed by without every effort be- 
ing made to take advantage of them. 

Street-meetings is also one of the most effectual ways 
of getting the gospel to the Japanese. Crowds gather 
until the street is full; and in many instances souls be- 


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come interested, come to the regular meetings, and give 
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PAGE SEVENTEEN 


It is difficult to give 
an adequate idea of ac- 
complishments on a 
particular mission-field. 
So many factors enter 
into the estimate; and, 
besides, we have no 
trustworthy | standard 
of measurement fami- 
liar to the church at 
home. Mere numbers 
is not a sufficient guide, 
for quality is always to 
be preferred above mere 
quantity. In my opin- 
ion the true measure is 
not so much the appar- 
ent breadth of a work, 
but rather its depth. 
The history of all missionary work is practically uniform 
in this respect; all preliminary efforts are necessarily slow 
so far as visible results are concerned, but if persevered 
in long enough the final results are highly successful. 


Zuda Chambers 


Our first missionaries to Japan labored hard for ten 
years or more to establish a foundation for the work. The 
number of dependable brethren brought out into the light 
during this time was not large, but only God knows the 
future yield that will result from the seed sown by per- 
sonal efforts, preaching, and the publication of gospel 
literature. Already we are beginning to witness an in- 
PAGE EIGHTEEN 


gathering. Since with the purchase of the new mission 
property the work has become more centralized in Tokyo, 
it has apparently entered upon a new era of prosperity. 
Souls are being added to the Lord almost constantly, and 
the missionary force on the field is finding it difficult to 
oversee and give sufficient assistance to the new converts 
and at the same time carry forward an active evangelistic 
propaganda. Let us not forget to pray earnestly for 
them in their efforts to spread the truth and to establish 
in living hearts the true faith of Christ. 

While our delegation. was visiting the work in Japan 
we were very much impressed that our method of work in 
that country at least should be strongly evangelistic. In 
fact, that phase of the 
work should never be 
made secondary. We 
had the privilege of at- 
tending the Conference 
of Federated Missions, 
held at  Karuizawa, 
where we came in con- 
tact with most of the 
leaders of the missions 
in Japan. From these 
men of experience we 
obtained much valuable 
information concerning 
the matter of holding 
church property, etc., 
and some of them im- 


John D. Crose 


plied, in public addresses, that educational, medical, and 
social-welfare work had been stressed out of proportion 


OUR MISSION HOUSE IN TOKYO 


to evangelism. It seems to us that the gospel of Jesus is 
of first importance in curing human ills, hence evangelistic 
efforts must be given rank above all other methods of ele- 
vating and benefitting society. 

There is not the same demand for us to undertake 
school work in Japan, for example, as there is in some 
other countries. The Imperial government has already 
established a strong school system. We were informed 
that last year the government appropriated twenty-two 
million dollars for the extension of the school system. So 
there seems to be little excuse for our establishing in 


Japan schools of our own in competition with the govern- 
ment system. 

But we have a good opportunity of reaching people 
through positions in the government schools. Since Eng- 
lish is made a part of the course of education there is 
considerable demand for English and American teachers. 
There is good pay for this service. Brother Alexander 
has found it to his advantage to teach a few hours each 
week, for it gave him access to many people who could 
be induced to submit to religious instruction at other 
times. 

When all things are considered, the prospect for suc- 
cess in the Japanese work is very good. While the Jap- 


MEETING-ROOM IN TOKYO MISSION 
(With Sunday-School Class) 


PAGE NINETEEN 


SUNDAY-SCHOOL CLASS AT MUSASHI SAKAI 


anese character differs in certain respects from our own, 
the remarkable progress of the nation during the past 
half-century shows them to be a very capable people. If 
they are able thus to manage so successfully their affairs 
as a nation, it is evident that there is capable material 
among them for managing the affairs of the church. 

The ideal for which we strive is an indigenous Japanese 
church. There is every evidence that these people are 
capable of maintaining a self-propagating, self-directing, 
PAGE TWENTY 


self-supporting church when once the work 
is firmly established in dependable working 
order. But it takes time to accomplish this 
preliminary work. The missionaries are 
needed there, and badly needed, for a long 
time yet. While general conditions are hope- 
ful, yet there are many serious and difficult 
problems which can be solved only by the 
help and direction of the Lord. Let us pray 
for the work in Japan. 


Since the foregoing paragraphs were writ- 
ten we have received from Japan reports of 
a real revival springing up in our work there. 
A number of university students are being 
saved and they are giving evidence of an 
earnest desire to live for the glory of God. 
Thirty of these young men and women were 
recently baptized on one occasion. We are 
glad that the photograph of this noble band 
of intelligent young people arrived in time 
for insertion in this book (see page 16). 

The numerous additions to the local church in Toyko 
has imposed quite a strain upon our small force of mis- 
sionary workers. We can not wish for the revival to stop, 
for we have long desired such spiritual results. But we 
can give proper support to these faithful workers, by our 
means; we can pray to God to increase both their physical 
strength and their spiritual efficiency; and we can ‘pray 
the Lord of the harvest that he will send forth more la- 
borers into his harvest.’ 


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HINA is frequently styled ‘tthe greatest mission-field 

in the world.” Here live four hundred million people, 

or about one fourth of the human race. This country has 

a history venerable with age; it has in the past contributed 

no small part to the sum total of human achievement, and 

it is perhaps destined to play a more important part in 
the future. 

There are five well-established religions in China. These 
are Confucian, Buddhist, Taoist, Mohammedan, and Chris- 
tian. Confucius lived in the sixth century before Christ. 
He gathered up and recorded in literary form the national 
traditions. In doing this, however, he subjected the spiri- 
tual to the material by placing emphasis on the things of 
this life. By forbidding ambition his system blocked 
progress, thus producing a stagnant civilization. His 
system is still the basis of Chinese society and govern- 
ment. The practical effect of this system has been to 
produce a peace-loving, non-militant people; good citi- 
zens, but not forward-looking and progressive as a nation. 

Taoism is also a native religion. It owes its origin to 
Lao-tse, a contemporary of Confucius. The system was 
more philosophical than religious, and was rationalistic. 
In its later development or degradation “it has become 
little more than a fantastic system of spirit-worship, of 


which alchemy, incantation, and intercourse with the dead 
are the chief characteristics.” 

Buddhism entered China during the early Christian cen- 
turies and took a firm hold upon the people. It became 


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greatly modified in form, however. Buddhist monasteries, 
images, and temples are today found all over China, but 
PAGE TWENTY-ONE 


AT THE TOMB OF J. HUDSON TAYLOR, FOUNDER 
OF THE CHINA INLAND MISSION, CHINKIANG 


PAGE TWENTY-TWO 


they are mostly in decay. The illiterate priests and monks are 
despised by the educated people. 

Mohammedanism is said to have been introduced into China by 
the maternal uncle of Mohammed. Missionaries of that faith 
preached industriously, and today Mohammedans there number 
about twenty millions. 

Christianity has made slow progress. The Nestorians intro- 
duced Christianity into China in the early part of the sixth cen- 
tury. This is proved by a tablet found in 1626 at Changan, 
Shen-si. Jesuits began working in the country in the sixteenth 
century and today Roman Catholics number about one million. 
Robert Morrison was the first Protestant missionary, 1807, and 
now after more than a century of work the Protestant adherents 
number only about four hundred thousand. 

Each mission-field has its own peculiar problems. Nations 
greatly diversified racially, educationally, religiously, and socially 
can not be approached in the same identical way, but different 
methods must be devised according to prevailing conditions. 

The state of progress of a particular people has much to do 
in determining the proper missionary methods. In this respect 
there is a sharp contrast between China and Japan. They differ 
governmentally, in that Japan is a centralized imperial power, 
whereas China is a sort of loosely organized republic. Japan 
aroused herself suddenly and during the last half-century has been 
making strenuous efforts to advance along the lines of Western 
thought. Her educational system is quite thorough and almost 
universal. China is also awakening; but owing to the vast num- 
bers of her population, the character of her long-established 
national traditions, and other causes, her progress has not been 


so rapid as that of the little island kingdom adjoining. While 


CHINESE TEMPLE AT HONGKONG 


considerable — advance 
has been made educa- 
tionally, the great 
masses are still densely 
ignorant and _ supersti- 
tious. But there is no question that the Chinese are cap- 
able of great development. The progress made by many 
of them in law, art, science, and manufacturing 1s _ suffi- 
cient proof. I mention these facts incidentally to show 
that there is in the natural ability of the people hope for 
a stable Christian work. 

Formerly there was quite a strong antiforeign element 
in China. This was due chiefly to the conservative policy 
of Chinese traditions. Most of the religious troubles have 
come through the clashing of militant foreign doctrines 
with the native customs and habits. On the questions of 


FAMOUS PAGODA 
AT SOOCHOW 


slavery, concubinage, 
and social customs 
generally, the mental 
attitudes of natives 
and Europeans differ 
greatly. The foreigners care little for precedents and 
they have introduced many innovations, resulting in fric- 
tion. The Boxer uprising in 1900 was an outbreak of this 
pent up wrath, at which time about two hundred mission- 
aries and many native converts lost their lives. 

But the antiforeign element is not so strong now. The 
progress of numbers of the Chinese people themselves 
along the lines of Western development can not but alter 
the unfavorable attitude still more. The people are 
naturally quiet and peaceable. They must be wrought 
upon powerfully by the strongest prejudices and senti- 

PAGE TWENTY-THREE 


A HORRIBLE CHINESE GOD 


ments before they can be spurred into such violent out- 
breaks as the Boxer trouble. On account of the peace- 
able disposition of the people, there is comparative safety 
for the foreigners everywhere. ‘The China Inland Mission 
has about one thousand missionaries in the interior, about 
two thirds of whom are women. Many of their stations 
are kept by foreign ladies—two at each place—who live 
and work alone, except as they are associated with Chinese 
and visited occasionally by leaders of the missionary 
forces in the provinces. 

China is indeed a great mission-field. Its greatest need 
is, of course, the gospel. There are numerous advantages 
in opening up the work there at the present time. The 
PAGE TWENTY-FOUR 


EXECUTION SCENES 
In China, as in most heathen lands, 
there exists a frightful disregard 
for human life. 
volts are overthrown it is no un- 
commen thing for hundreds, and 
even thousands, of victims to be 

led forth to slaughter. 


After political re- 


nation is gradually awakening, and during the transition 
period the minds of the people are in a sort of formative 
state, more easily influenced toward right ideals and 
higher standards of living than they will be later when 
thoughts and mental states again become crystalized. I 
refer particularly to that progressive section of the Chi- 
nese people that is being educated and trained in harmony 
with modern ideas. Whenever education and enlighten- 
ment force a break with traditions and the religious super- 
stitions of the past, the inevitable tendency, unless coun- 
teracted by a positive moral force, is a drift toward open 
irreligion and indifference. And such a drift will be 
especially easy in China; for of all people they are said 


A TYPICAL CHINESE HOME 


to be the least inclined to religion. Such is the natural 
result of Confucianism, with its disregard of spiritual in- 
terests and with its strong emphasis on the relations of 
life. The awakening of China, then, furnishes the oppor- 
tunity to establish the gospel of Christ. If Christian in- 
fluences are not made strong, an intelligent, educated, 
irreligious class dominating the thought. of their fellow 
countrymen will lead the people to grosser materialism, 
if that is possible; just as in France, in the eighteenth 
century, the intellectuals succeeded in perverting the re- 
ligious instincts and sentiments of the people, and pro- 
duced an infidel nation. 

China presents no great array of difficulties aside from 
that general class of difficulties common to all heathen 
missionary fields. Foreigners live in all parts of the 


country, and newcomers can protect themselves against 
dangers to health by adopting the methods of living that 
time and experience have proved to be necessary. Lan- 
guage is one of the chief difficulties, for many dialects are 
spoken. The official language is Mandarin, and it is ex- 
tensively known, especially through the northern prov- 
inces. But the dialects are so many that it is often difficult 
even for the Chinese to understand each other. It is amus- 
ing to see natives trying to converse in “pidgin English.” 

Our missionary work in China was established through 
the agency of William A. and Charles E. Hunnex. These 
brothers were born in China, of European parents, and 
they came over to America in 1904. While here they came 
in contact with this reformation and embraced the truth 
as God revealed it to them. They were much interested 


CHINESE WOMAN’S BOUND FOOT 


PAGE TWENTY-FIVE 


C. E. Hunnex 


work in China. 


in the subject of missions and they 
did much to turn the attention of 
the brethren to the need of work in 
China. 

After being accepted as mission- 
aries, Wm. A. Hunnex, with his 
wife, Gloria, sailed for China in 1909 
and his brother Charles went the 
following year. Since that time they 
have all been back to America on 
furlough and returned again to the 


They and their wives have been much 


used of the Lord in that land. Sister Pina Winters 
joined them in 1910 and remained four years. Sisters 


Chinkiang, a walled city of about 
two hundred thousand inhabitants 
situated on the Yang-tse River about 
one hundred forty miles inland from 
Shanghai, was the place selected for 
the beginning of our work in China. 
This was the birthplace of Wm. A. 
Hunnex. Here also is the tomb of 
J. Hudson Taylor, the revered foun- 
der of the China Inland Mission. 

The missionary home at Chinkiang 


Annabel Hunnex 


was built in 1910, shortly after Wm. A. Hunnex and his 
wife went to China, and it was designed for an orphanage. 
Later it was decided to abandon the orphanage project, 


Belle M. Watson and Daisy 
V. Maiden went in 1916. 
They have been making 
good progress in the lan- 
guage and also in religious 
service. And while Brother 
Reardon and I were in 
China, in 1919, Sister Ida 
Porter, who has had a long 
experience as a missionary 
in that land, joined our 
forces on the field. Sister 
Porter is shown in the 
group of missionaries page 
32, the central figure stand- 
ing. 

PAGE TWENTY-SIX 


OUR MISSIONARY HOME AT CHINKIANG 


so the building has been 
used since as a home for 
missionaries. The main 
house is made of brick, with 
porch extending half-way 
around, and there is a nice 
yard enclosed by a _ wall. 
The house contains eleven 
rooms, besides basement. 
The home is situated out on 
the hills about a half-mile 
from the native city. With 
the home in this location, 
our missionaries consider 
Chinkiang a good place to 
spend a number of weeks 


during the summer. Bro. Charles Hunnex and his wife, a small street-chapel in another part of the city, in which 
Annabel, have charge of the work there at present. meetings are held regularly. This chapel is designed for 

In the native city, and well located, is the rented mis- special efforts to reach the masses of heathen, who at all 
sionary hall. Here the native pastor, Brother Dong, times surge past the entrance. The attendance is usually 
good. ‘Those who become interested are directed to the 
mission hall previously referred to, where they receive 
further instruction and come under the more direct influ- 
ence of the church. The native pastor, Brother Dong, 
takes charge of the work at this street-chapel. 

Some work has also been opened at Suchowfu, about 
two hundred fifty miles further inland from Chinkiang. 
On page 34 we show a small chapel at that place which was 
used for religious services. Bro. Charles Hunnex has gen- 


BROTHER DONG, NATIVE PASTOR, AND FAMILY 


and his family live, and here in this chapel the Sunday- 
school and meetings designed especially for the church 
are held, in addition to general services to which the public 
is invited. A nice little congregation greeted us there, 
and we enjoyed preaching the word of the Lord to ‘them, 
Bro. Charles Hunnex translating for us. A number 
sought the Lord in these meetings. : 
In addition to the foregoing, we have also in Chinkiang CHAPEL AND CONGREGATION AT CHINKIANG 
PAGE TWENTY-SEVEN 


DINING ON THE MISSION PREMISES 


eral oversight of that work and he handles it as an out- 
station, a native pastor having immediate charge. 

Our missionaries in China have not done an extensive 
literary work. Different causes have retarded progress 
along this line. In the first place all literary work in 
China is considerably hampered on account of the illiter- 
acy of the people, the vast majority of the masses being 
unable to read. And then, too, our missionaries have been 
able to make use of literature of a general character al- 
ready published and which can be purchased cheaper than 
we can produce it ourselves. Lack of means has also been 
a hindrance at times. There is neéd for the translation 
and publication of some of our works setting forth clearly 
distinctive teachings of the reformation. Very few of our 
PAGE TWENTY-EIGHT 


Chinese brethren understand English, hence they have no 
direct access to our English literature. 

Our missionaries have published in Chinese a small song- 
book and a few booklets. They also publish regularly 
(bitnonthly at present) the Pure Gospel, a sixteen-page 
periodical intended primarily for Christians. The sub- 
scription list, however, is not large. It is difficult in China 
to obtain the names and addresses of those who can read. 
Bro. Charles E. Hunnex is the editor of the paper and 
he is assisted in his work by Brother Dong, the native 
pastor at Chinkiang already referred to. We have not 
installed a publishing plant of our own, we find it more 
convenient and economical to have the printing done at 
the Commercial Press in Shanghai. 


ONE MODE OF TRAVEL IN CHINA 


NATIVE DRESS OF MEN IN CHINA 


Shanghai has been styled **The Gateway to China.” It 
is a remarkably progressive city of more than a million, 
and is throbbing with life and energy. Here the Orient 
and the Occident meet, and the influences radiating from 
this place affect all of northern China. 

Our work in Shanghai centers in the missionary home 
and chapel at 11 Quinsan Garden. We do not own this 
property, but rent it. The location is excellent, the large 
“garden” just across the street is restricted to the use 
of foreigners and is a delightful place for rest and recrea- 
tion. The surroundings of the home are such as to reflect 
credit upon our work. The home contains eight large 
rooms for the accommodation of missionary workers, 
besides bath-rooms, chapel, and native quarters. The 


chapel accommodates more than one hundred persons. 

The rent of all property in Shanghai is excessively 
high, but there seems no other way to do if we are to carry 
forward the work in that big city. It is necessary to 
choose a suitable location. As a result of this effort to 
put the work on a respectable footing, the cause is now at- 
tracting the attention of some of the best class of Chinese. 

The street-chapel in Shanghai is well located, on a 
corner, and the attendance is now very good. ‘This place 
is also rented. In addition to the chapel proper, it fur- 
nishes living-quarters for the native pastor and his family. 
For a year or two the attendance at this place was small, 
but the pastor, Brother Lee (shown on page 82, on read- 


NATIVE DRESS OF WOMEN IN CHINA 
PAGE TWENTY-NINE 


Daisy V. Maiden 


Wm. A. Hunnex Gloria G. Hunnex 


er’s right, sitting), was faithful, and afterward the place 
was filled at dines every service. About seventy-five or 
eighty can be comfortably seated. This place attracts 
the passing crowds particularly, but those who become 
interested are followed up and carefully instructed until 
they can find Christ if they will. ‘The street-chapel serves 
as a feeder for the central work at 11 Quinsan Garden. 

Shortly before our arrival in China a new opportunity 
opened for our missionaries at the Municipal Hospital 
and Prison. ‘The prison occupies one wing and the hos- 
pital another wing of a large municipal building. The hos- 
pital is for the exclusive use of policemen, firemen, and 
other city employees. A large number of sick and conva- 
lescingemen are always there. Our missionaries hold ser- 
vices there regularly. At the Sunday service which I at- 
tended while there, when the photograph shown on page 
33 was taken, not one man in the crowd of about fifty 
PAGE THIRTY 


could tell how Jesus died, and not 
one knew in his own language the 
word for Satan. They had never 
heard the gospel. They seemed in- 
terested in the preaching. 

According to our missionaries, it 
is difficult to do Sunday-school work 
in China, as it is almost impossible 
to gain access to the children. This 
condition contrasts sharply with 


Japan, where it is easy to gather 
in large numbers of children and 
teach them. In China superstitious 
parents are afraid to permit their children such privi- 
leges. Before our arrival an opportunity opened for con- 
ducting a Sunday-school among the pupils of a native 
day-school on Foochow Road, Shanghai. The principal 
of the school, though not a Christian himself, seemed 
pleased to have the missionaries give instruction to his 
pupils on religious subjects. 

After we left China, Sister Ida Porter opened up another 
mission station in Shanghai, as she speaks the “Shanghai 
dialect.” She has Sister Tao for a Bible woman. 


If we were to estimate our work in China by present 
visible results alone, or by the numbers who may be fairly 
reckoned as being out in the clear light and established, 
it would seem to be making rather slow progress. But 
our work there is almost entirely among the raw heathen, 
and we must bear in mind that work among this class is 
necessarily slow at first. Robert Morrison, first Protes- 


Belle M. Watson 


CHAPEL AND CONGREGATION AT 11 QUINSAN GARDEN, SHANGHAI 


tant missionary to China, went in 1807. He obtained 
only one convert. In 1842 (thirty-five years later!) there 
were only seven converts. But a foundation had been laid, 
the Bible and other works translated, and influences for 
good began to radiate from that small beginning. Now 
all missionary work there is moving much more rapidly. 
But upon the authority of H. W. White, D. D., long time 
missionary in China, we have the statements that the lat- 
est available statistics of Protestant missions in that land 
are as follows: 


Viewed in com- 
parison with the 
statistics of other 
missionary  socie- 
ties we think that 
our work has made 
substantial prog- 
ress. It takes al- 
most infinite pa- 
tience, faith, and 
persevering love 
to labor hard and 
long for those who 
at- first do not 
seem to appreci- 
ate the sacrificing efforts 
made for them. 

There are many commend- 
able features connected with 
our work in China. One 
thing in particular is the 
fact that we are now finding 
access to the better class of 
Chinese — the class upon 
which the real future of 


“One convert each year for each worker en- 
gaged. After 110 years of Protestant mission- 
ary work there are today only ten converts for 
each worker engaged. It costs $558 gold to 
convert a single Chinese.” 


*z. 


TWO NATIVE SISTERS ~ 
PAGE THIRTY-ONE 


GROUP OF MISSIONARIES IN CHINA 


China rests. It is evident that no permanent work can 
be built up if our appeal is made to the lower classes only. 
By having in each large city street-chapels devoted to 
work for the ordinary street-goers, and then having cen- 
tral places that will attract the better classes, we are able 
to reach all kinds of people. 

One of the greatest difficulties to the progress of gospel 
work among the Chinese is the national indifference to 
PAGE THIRTY-TWO 


NATIVE MINISTERS AND WORKERS 
IN SHANGHAI 


things religious. Confucius, their great sage whom they 
all admire, was not a prophet or seer; he claimed no divine 
inspiration and made no attempt to direct the people 
toward blissful enjoyment in a life after death. He con- 
cerned himself about socity and its well-being, placing em- 
phasis on the relations of this life. ‘The influences of this 
great teacher have made a remarkable impression upon 


MEETING AT THE MUNICIPAL HOSPITAL 


Chinese life and character, for they are naturally much 
more concerned about earthly gains and advantages than 
they are about what the future may have in store for 
them. : 

But notwithstanding all the natural difficulties owing 
to long-established national sentiments, we have in China, 
as well as elsewhere in the world, abundant proof that 
after all human nature is very much the same everywhere, 
and that the gospel of Jesus Christ is universally appli- 


cable, producing the same results in the people of every 
race and nation. Centuries of Buddhism, with its teach- 
ing that all the emotions must be suppressed, has had such 
a tremendous influence upon such countries as Japan and 
China that many casual observers have been inclined to 
think that these Orientals differ fundamentally from al- 
most all other peoples and are well-nigh incapable of emo- 
tion. 


SUNDAY-SCHOOL CLASS ON FOOCHOW ROAD, SHANGHAI 
PAGE THIRTY-THREE 


STREET-CHAPEL IN SHANGHAI 


I have already referred to the revival taking place in 
our work in Japan. We have also received word recently 
of a smiilar movement in our missionary work in China. 
According to the reports the unemotional Chinese are be- 
ing greatly affected by the gospel. When I read about 
them coming to the missionaries and begging prayers for 
their salvation, of altar services in which “big strong men 
come weeping under conviction,” I can almost imagine 
that I am reading about a revival in our own land. So the 
Chinese can be touched by the love of Christ as well as any 
other people. 

The great need in China today is for real men of God 
who are capable leaders, with constructive ability. We 
thank God for those who are already on the field; but their 
PAGE THIRTY-FOUR 


e 


CHAPEL AT SUCHOWFU 


number is so small in comparison with the great work to 
be done. 

The church of God needs men, men of the right type— 
men who are capable—holy men who are consecrated to go 
forth and endure the hardships and privations of mission- 
ary life in distant lands. Where are the capable leaders 
upon whom God can lay his hand for honorable service in 
the greatest of all enterprises? 

Apart from the question of able gospel teachers and 
leaders, the missionary cause in China, as well as elsewhere, 
needs money. Without adequate financial support it is 
impossible to enter the open doors and prosecute an ag- 
gressive work. 

Let us all remember the work 


of God 


in China. 


AUSTRALIA and the FIJI ISLANDS 


AUSTRALIA 

USTRALIA, the great island continent of the south- 

ern hemisphere, is sparsely settled, the population 
numbering only about six million, the majority of whom 
live in fe cities along the southern and eastern coasts. 
With the exception of perhaps one hundred thousand 
aborigines and a small percentage of foreigners, the peo- 
ple are all of English descent, maintaining much that is 
traditional in British character and customs, and yet 
having many things in common with Americans. 

Owing to the fact that Australia is a Christian country 
it can not properly be called a mission-field. The latest 
available government census shows 1,680 religious beliefs ; 
so Australia herself certainly needs the full light of the 
gospel, as well as other so-called Christian lands. 

Australia possesses strategic advantages, however, be- 
cause of its nationality and its situation in the southern 
hemisphere and because of the proximity to it of so many 
islands that are in need of Christian missionaries and of 
the glorious light of the present truth. 

With the establishment of a substantial work in Aus- 
tralia it will not be long until its influence will reach out 
strongly to the many needy surrounding fields. For this 
reason, if from no other, the Australian work in its in- 


fancy merits the support of the church in America until 
it can stand on its own 
feet. Then it will be- 
come a _ missionary 
church itself and have 
no need of our assist- 
ance. Already the in- 
terest manifested by 
people in widely sepa- 
rated parts of 
the © Common- 
wealth, as well 
as others in the 
islands of the 
sea, betokens a 
bright and pros- 
perous future 
for the work in 
that part of the 
southern hemis- 
phere. 

In 1917 Bro. 
E. P. May and 
family went to 


PAGE THIRTY-FIVE 


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ete re gee bs 


E. P. MAY AND FAMILY AT HOME, CAMPSIE, AUSTRALIA 


Australia to take up the work. They went to Sydney 
and began, the family residing in one of the suburbs. 
Prior to their arrival some literature had been circulated 
there, but nothing had been done toward raising up 
churches of the saints in that country. Brother May is 
an Australian by birth, so he is able to approach the peo- 
ple as one of their own ministers, and not in the guise of 
a foreign missionary, whose work they as a Christian peo- 
ple would naturally feel like resenting. 

PAGE THIRTY-SIX 


‘‘UNITY MISSION,’’ SYDNEY 


To accommodate the work in Sydney a commodious hall 
known as “Unity Mission” has been fitted up in the heart 
of the city and on one of the principal streets. The en- 
tire second floor of a good-sized building was rented, the 
front part of which was partitioned off for the mission. 
The rear part contains four rooms; one for prayer, anoth- 
er for the stock of supplies, the third is rented out, and 


E. P. MAY IN HIS PRIVATE OFFICE 
Here the Australasian Gospel Trumpet is Edited 


the fourth is Brother May’s private office. The meeting- 
hall is neatly decorated, is electrically lighted, has a com- 
fortable seating-capacity for about 150 persons, and the 
large front windows are covered with attractive signs. In 
this central place the principal religious services are held. 

But Brother May’s object in going to Australia was 
not simply to open up a local work in Sydney; he had in 
mind the establishing of the work throughout Australia 
and the neighboring islands of the south Pacific. Of 
course, he did not expect to accomplish all this work alone, 
but he thought it proper to plan his work with this end 
in view. In order to work successfully on a wide scale 


he chose for his leading method the publication and cir- 
culation of literature setting forth the distinctive truths 
of the Word of God. Perhaps his best and most effective 
medium in the literary field has been the Australasian 
Gospel Trumpet, which is a splendid sixteen-page maga- 
zine reflecting credit upon the work. It has readers in 
many places on the continent, and also in some of the 
islands of the Pacific, and its influence is constantly gain- 
ing. Many honest hearts have become interested by read- 
ing its pages, and already direct correspondence is held 
with hundreds of people in various parts, some of whom 
have already taken their stand for the truth. 

Large numbers of books and tracts published by the 


STOCK-ROOM OF THE AUSTRALASIAN 
GOSPEL TRUMPET CoO. 


PAGE THIRTY-SEVEN 


Wm. Sutherland 


Gospel Trumpet 
Company, of Ander- 
son, Ind., have also 
been circulated. The 
view of the stock- 
room (page 37) 
shows the _ shelves 
filled with books and 
other literature a- 
raiting distribution. 
The Australasian 
Gospel Trumpet fur- 
nishes an_ excellent 
advertising medium 
for their circulation. 

In addition to the 


“SAND THE ISIVES SHALL WATT SEO RettElSm ips 


PAGE THIRTY-EIGHT 


NATIVE CONGREGATION IN THE FIJI ISLANDS 


(Isa. 42:4) 


general phase _ of 
Brother May’s work, 
which is largely mis- 
sionary in character, 
he has been used of 
the Lord in raising 
up a local congrega- 
tion of the church in 
Sydney. When we 


visited Australia, in 


1919, we found in 
Sydney an _ earnest 
band of devoted 


Christians who have 
embraced the lght 
of the present truth 
and who were anxious 
to have it extended 
everywhere throughout 
that land. God is rais- 
ing up among them 
those who are already 
of valuable assistance. 
May the good work go 
on. 
FIJI ISLANDS 
The Fiji Islands lie in the southern Pacific nearly two 
thousand miles northeast of Australia. They are a crown 
colony of Great Britain. Over a century ago some fugi- 
tive convicts from Australia settled there, but the Euro- 


E. P. MAY AND A FIJIAN 


Bro. May tersely wrote: ‘‘But for 
the gospel, this man would have my 
head instead of my hand.’’ 


NATIVE MEETING-PLACE IN FIJI 


The Lali upon which Brother May’s foot rests used to be pounded 
ta summon the natives to cannibal feasts; now it calls them to 
church. 


pean population grew but very little, owing to the hostil- 
ity of the natives, who were cannibals, numerous, and war- 
like. In 1834 some Wesleyan missionaries reached the 
islands and in 1854 they succeeded in converting Thakom- 
bau, the most powerful of the native chiefs, and the mass 
of the people also. The sovereignty over the islands was 
offered to Great Britain in 1858 and refused, but the offer 
was renewed in 1874 and accepted. 

The population of the Fiji Islands is about 160,000, 
half of whom are Fijians proper, 4,800 are European, 
64,000 are Indians, 2,000 Solomon Islanders, and the 


PAGE THIRTY-NINE 


remainder Japanese, Tongans, Samoans, and Chinese. 

Our missionary work in the islands is under the charge 
of Bro. Wm. Sutherland (photo page 38), who is a Brit- 
ish subject, a New Zealander by birth. The manner in 


which this good brother was 
brought into contact with the full 
truth was really providential. In 
October, 1917, as Bro. E. P. May 
and family were enroute to Aus- 
tralia their ship called at Suva, the 
capital of Fiji, for a few hours. 
Brother May took some Gospel 
Trumpets and went out into one of 
the streets, entered a shop and in- 
quired whether there was a man in 
the town who might enjoy reading 
such literature. Soon he was in- 
troduced to Brother Sutherland, 
whose heart had been hungering for 
the deeper things of God. About 
a year later Brother May returned 
to Fiji on a missionary trip and 
spent some time with Brother Suth- 
erland, and he reported a commend- 
able work there. 


Brother Reardon and I did not get to visit Fiji on our 
trip, but while we were in Australia, Brother Sutherland 
came to Sydney and spent several weeks with us in the 
work. We appreciated the company of this humble man 
of God and we were pleased to join with Brother May 


PAGE FORTY 


NOVEL METHOD OF TRANSPORTATION 


in ordaining him as a minister of the church of God. 

The Lord has not won this good man to the truth alone, 
but with him six hundred or more souls. 
home, he has a congregation; within a radius of eight 


In Suva, his 


miles of Suva are eight other con- 
gregations averaging about twenty- 
five members each; at Navua is a 
congregation of about forty, with 
two native pastors. Besides these 
there are at least seven other con- 
gregations which look to Brother 
Sutherland for care and direction. 
Most of these congregations are 
self-supporting and have their own 
places of meeting, which, of course, 
are not elaborate but put up in 
native style. 

Brother Sutherland has associat- 
ed with him a number of native pas- 
tors, and he also conducts an or- 
phanage and school. Most of his 
work is among the Solomon Island- 
ers. These people are called, “The 
Europeans of the Pacific,” and they 
seem to be more susceptible to the 


gospel and more dependable in certain respects than are 
the native Fijians. 
for this good work in the sunny isles of the south Pacific. 
Our brethren are laboring faithfully to establish the truth 
in Fiji and we should remember them in our prayers. 


We should be thankful to the Lord 


COS 


ING Dae leeN 


NDIA has been termed a “continent of nations.’ 
give even a partial description of this great country, 
with its diversity of peoples, languages, social customs, 
and religions, would require a book much larger than this 


one, so I can not hope to 
give an adequate idea of these 
things, although they have such 
an important bearing on all 
missionary work in India, but 
must content myself with a 
brief sketch. 

India is a sort of world of it- 
self, containing some 840,000,- 
000 people. Hemmed in by the 
Arabian Sea, the Bay of Ben- 
gal, and the colossal ranges of 
the Himalayas, thus guarded effectual- 
ly against intrusion, India was able to 
develop a civilization and social system 
of its own. From the missionary point 
of view, we are not directly concerned 
with the physical features of the coun- 
try, nor with the history of its people, 
except so far as these things have an 


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influence today on the preaching of the gospel of Christ. 
The study of the people of that wonderful land is inter- 
esting in itself; but since the gospel is intended for all 
men, we are not as much concerned about particular types 


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of men as we are about those 
problems that stand in the way 

of its free access to them. 
India is the battle-ground of 
missions. He who is able. to 
solve the problems of mission- 
ary work in India is able to 
solve them for the world. The 
Indian type of civilization, its 
manners and customs, its social 
system, its educational stand- 
ards, its philosophical systems, 
and its religions, differs so ma- 
terially from the standards of 
Western Christian civilization 
that the difficulties confronting 
the missionary appear well-nigh 
insurmountable. The planting 
of Western culture on another 
people is comparatively easy if 
PAGE FORTY-ONE 


they have no developed 
culture of their own. 
But in India the task is 
different. | Westerners 
there have faced the 
problems of the “‘super- 
imposing of one system 
of culture upon another 
more_ philosophically 
profound in its sphere, 
and upon a people who 
cherished an education- 
al lore that antedated 
by far the one offered 
them in its stead.” 


Many of the well- 
established customs in 
India are necessarily 
viewed by the mission- 
ary as social evils, and 
he can not avoid using 
his influence against 
these very things. One 
of these crying evils is 
the perverse system of 
marriage. Marriage in 
India is a religious ne- 
cvssity, and so also is offspring. For this reason an un- 
married man or woman is, as a rule, viewed with contempt. 
If a man marries and fails to have sons he marries more 
PAGE FORTY-TWO 


AT THE TOMB OF WM. CAREY 
‘“‘The Father of Modern Missions,’’ 
Serampore, India 


than once, the number of wives being limited only by the 
means of support. Thus the evils of polygamy arise. 

Since marriage is a religious necessity the parents 
consider it their duty to marry their children, hence they 
are anxious to perform this duty as soon as possible, and 
this gives rise to the monstrous evil of child-marriage. 
Large numbers are married by their parents while they 
are still little boys and girls, thousands of them perhaps 
not one year old. 


Unmarried daughters are considered a great burden to 
Indian par- om 
ents, and oft- 
times the fath- 
er is obliged 
to expend 
large sums of 
money, or ob- 
ligate himself 
otherwise, in 
order to in- 
duce some one 
to marry his 
daughter. 
Those who are 
not rich and 
can not afford 
to pay are 
frequently ob- 
liged to give 
their daugh- 


TAJ MAHAL, AT AGRA 
“‘The Gem of Indian Architecture’’ 


ters to men who are too poor to support them, or else to 
old men having wives already. It is often the case that 
girls of five to ten are married to men of sixty or older. 

Boys and girls have very little to do with their own 
marriages, all arrangements being made by their parents. 


BENARES, THE SACRED CITY, AND THE GANGES 


Frequently they do not even see each other until the wed- 
ding-day. The fact that in India there is no intermar- 
riage between the different castes makes the marriage 
problem all the more difficult. 

On account of the difficulties mentioned, and many oth- 
ers, girls are always considered undesirable offspring. 
From this situation arises the barbarous custom of female 
infanticide. Thus one evil prepares the way for another. 


The custom of keeping purdah is also a positive injust- 
ice to the women of India. ‘*Purdah” means curtain, hence 
signifies the custom of women living behind a curtain, 
screened from the view of the opposite sex. This custom 
originated with the Mohammedans, but is in vogue among 
all classes, especially in Northern India. This seclusion 
of the females within the inner apartments of their own 
homes destines them to remain ignorant of what is going 
on in the outside world. Hence little regard is given to 
the education of women in India. India holds the view so 
common throughout the Orient of the utter worthlessness 
of women. It is a Hindu saying, “There are many Hindu 
sects in India, but upon two points we all agree—the sanc- 
tity of the cow and the depravity of women.” 


BATHING IN THE SACRED GANGES 
PAGE FORTY-THREE 


A Hindu catechism on moral subjects reads as follows: 


Q. What is the 
chief gate to hell? 
A. A woman. 

Q. What be- 
witches like wine? 

A. A woman. 

Q. Who is the 
wisest of the wise? 

A. He who has 
not been deceived 
by women, who 
may be compared 
to malignant 
fiends. 

Q@. What are 
fetters to men? 

A. Women. 

Q. What is that 
which can not be 
trusted? 

A. A woman. 

Q. What poison 
is that which ap- 
pears like nectar? 

A. A woman. 


How sad the 
lot of 150,000,- 
000 women, not 


one in a_hun- 
* dred of whom 
plas Pee eC a ie FeAl es OF 
A HINDU ASCETIC ON SPIKES write! 
These ‘‘holy men’’ consider it highly meri- And the 
torious thus to punish the flesh. pew Aer) 


who can tell the 
horrors of Indian widowhood, that social curse which 
PAGE FORTY-FOUR 


blights the lives of millions of unfortunates? Widowhood 
is believed to be the result of some horrible crime com- 
mitted by the woman in some previous life, a crime for 
which her husband has been punished. It is her fault that 
he has died, and she must suffer. She is constantly cursed 
by the relatives of her husband; she must eat only one meal 
in twenty-four hours; she must never take part in the 
family feasts; she must wear coarse garments; she is not 
allowed to wear long hair, that prize of Indian woman- 
hood; and all her loved jewels are taken from her. A 
curse to the family, a burden to society, her life is a mis- 
erable one until the day of her death. 

Since marriage in India takes place so early in life there 
are widows of all ages, thousands of them under five years 


DEVIL MASKS USED AT HEATHEN CEREMONIES 


of age. Think of 
the sorrow of their 
long lives; for they 
can never marry 
again. It is just to 
say, however, that 
Indian _social-re- 
formers today are 
advocating the re- 
marriage of virgin 
widows. 

The caste system 
is one of the most 
rigid customs bound 
on Indian society, 
one that presents 
some of the most dif- 
ficult problems for 
the missionary. So- 
ciety is divided into 
distinct sections. 
Originally there were 
four main castes or 
divisions, the priests, 
the warriors, the 
merchants, and _ the 
slaves, each keeping 
his own caste pure 
by not intermingling 
with another. 


There are now over 2,000 castes differing 


FAMINE-SUFFERERS IN INDIA 


Destructive famines are frequent in India, and thousands die of starvation. 
While these lines were being written we received from Bro. John A. D. Khan 
details of another horrible famine. The relief funds which we send from time to 
time are highly appreciated, and sametimes they actually save the lives of some 
of our own brethren in the faith. 

‘‘Tord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? And the King shall 
answer, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, 
ye have done it unto me.’’ 


entire social ostracism as well. 


and cus- 
more or 


in tastes 
toms, and 
less hating and de- 
spising one another. 
They never eat food 
prepared by another 
caste; in fact, people 
of one caste will oft- 
en starve to death in 
times of famine rath- 
er than eat food from 
the hand of a man of 
another caste. 

This system has 
taken such deep hold 
on Indian life, and 
they love it so well, 
that it is a most dif- 
ficult problem to 
overcome its evil ef- 
fects. To become a 
Christianinvolves the 
breaking of caste, a 
most terrible sin, 
which entails not on- 
ly the expulsion of 
the offender from his 
own family and caste 
group, but also his 


But Christianity knows no 


PAGE FORTY-FIVE 


OUR CARRIAGE IN A PUNJAB DISTRICT 


such distinctions; it insists on the unity of 
the race and a common brotherhood. 

From the earliest times India has been a 
land of numerous religions, and they are 
varied in spirit and character. Some of 
these are profound philosophical systems, 
which appeal powerfully to the meditative 
and speculative mind of the Oriental. ‘The 
simplicity of the Christian system with its 
practical demonstration is not attractive to 
that class of mystical minds, highly trained 
in speculative reasoning. 

The principal religions of India may be 


PAGE FORTY-SIX 


classed as Hinduism, Buddhism, Mohammedanism, Jain- 
ism, Zoroastrianism and Sikhism. ‘These religions 
are so varied in character that it is impossible in 
the limits at my disposal to give any adequate idea of them. 
The Hindu rites and ceremonies, for example, are almost 
endless—their disposal of the dead, offerings to the 
priests, sacrifices, multiplication of deities, and scores of 
other things. Their forms of worship are often revolting 
in the extreme. We visited Benares, the sacred city, and 
there we saw the multitudes of pious pilgrims bathing in 
the sacred Ganges and drinking its filthy water, hoping 
to obtain merit thereby. In the temples of that city, at 
the Kalighat, in Calcutta, and in other places, we saw 
them “‘mad on their idols.” There are yet other forms of 
worship too corrupt to describe, such as the disgusting 
abominations of the Tantric worship, the five essential 


VILLAGE PREACHING IN THE PUNJAB 


elements of which are wine, flesh, fish, parched grain, and 
sexual intercourse. 

India is a land of temples. These buildings are mag- 
nificent in size and shape, and are consecrated to the dif- 
ferent gods and goddesses. ‘lo these places the people 
flock from all the surround- 
ing country. Most of the 
priests are bad characters. 
Their very appearance tells 
unmistakably the debased, 
lustful nature of their lives. 

The custom of having 
“temple girls,’ a custom 
more prevalent in South 
than North India, is a dark 
spot indeed. Thousands of 
girls are taken to the tem- 
ples when very young and 
“married to the gods, and 
a part of the marriage vow 
is to abandon themselves to 
every pilgrimin theshrine.” 
Our hearts sicken with hor- 
ror when we think of the gigantic evils existing under the 
sanction of religion and that are cursing dark India to- 


day. How they need the gospel! 


Our missionary work in India began more than twenty 
years ago, in connection with certain Indian brethren, as 


John A. D. Khan, J. M. Nichols-Roy, and M. Moses, 
whose pictures appear on pages 48, 49. About that time 


MISSION HOUSE, MOZANG ROAD, LAHORE, INDIA 


Robert Jarvis and his wife, Laura L., became connected 
with us. Mr. Jarvis was a British soldier who became 
a missionary in India, so they were already at work there 
when we learned of them. Later they built the Faith 
Orphanage, at Lahore, shown on page 49. This institu- 
tion was afterwards closed, 
but I mention it and have 
included its photograph in 
this description because of 
theimportant partit played 
in the beginning of our 
work in India, most of our 
first missionaries being at 
some time or other connect- 
ed with the institution. Sis- 
ter Jarvis remained faithful 
until death called her home, 
in 1908. James A. Strawn, 
Victor C. Maiden, his wife, 
and their children, also died 
on the field of service. See 
photographs on page 93. 
Robert Jarvis is no long- 
er connected with our work. 

If space would permit I should like to mention the part 
taken in the past by all the missionaries who assisted in the 
development of our work in India. Their names will be 
found in the Missionary Roll-Call, inside the back cover 
of this book. 


When Brother Reardon and I reached India, in Decem- 
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if Joseprine M°Crie Sil | TMOUNT: HOUSE? Curtack ji 


PAGE FORTY-EIGHT 


: b a Bye Fara Srewanst 


IISSIONARIES NDIA. 


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PAGE FORTY-NINE 


ber, 1919, we 
proceeded to 
Poona, in order 
to visit the work 
of Pandita Ram- 
abai, at Keda- 
on. Here we 
were joined by 
Bro. G. P. Task- 
er, who came 
down from _ the 
Punjab to meet 
us. I have re- 
ferred to the sad 
lot of Indian 
women, especial- 
ly of widows, but 
we are glad that 
something is_be- 
ing done for 
their assistance. 
Ramabai, herself 
a widow with one ttn 
daughter, devoted her life to the encouragement of female 
education and to the discouragement of child-marriage. 
She has been wonderfully successful in her work. She has 
visited Europe and America in its interests. At present 
there are about seven hundred women in her institution. 
Her daughter is now in active charge of the work. 

We visited certain mission stations north of Bombay, 
PAGE FIFTY 


THE SHELTER, CUTTACK, INDIA, HOME FOR UNPROTECTED MINOR GIRLS 


then proceeded 
to the Punjab 
section and en- 
tered the coun- 
try villages in 
order to investi- 
gate district 
work. We found 
this work among 
the raw heathen 
very interesting. 

Arriving at 
Lahore, we visit- 
ed the institu-- 
tion that was 
formerly our 
Faith Orphan- 
age, went to the 
graves of Mrs. 
Laura Jarvis and 
Victor C. Maid- 
en, then proceed- 
ed to the mission 
house on Mozang Road which has been the home for about 
five years of Bro. George P. Tasker and wife, Sister Jo- 
sephine McCrie also assisting in the mission work there 
during a portion of that time. For photographs of these 
missionaries see pages 48, 49. 


We then went to Cuttack, in the province of Orissa, to 
visit our work. Here is located the Shelter, an institution 


for unprotected minor girls. The building is of brick, 
two story, with living-rooms and office on the first floor, 
the second floor being a large hall with sleeping-accom- 
modations. There are outbuildings for servants’ quarters, 
kitchen, classrooms, etc. All are enclosed by a five-foot 
wall in a compound of six acres. 


The object of this institution 
is to provide shelter, education, 
and religious training,also some 
domestic and vocational train- 
ing, for young girls. Many of 
these girls were destined for the 


E. FAITH STEWART 
With a Young Girl 
as received into the 

SHELTER 


brothels and the temples but were 
rescued before entering lives of 
shame. Sister E. Faith Stewart 


CHILDREN AND TEACHERS IN THE SHELTER AT CUTTACK has charge of this work. She and 
Gsm ‘‘FEED MY LAMBS’’ mo her helpers have their hands and 


FIFTY-ONE 


PUBLISHING PLANT AT CUTTACK 


hearts full, and they should be highly appreciated for 
their self-sacrifice and labors of love. 

There are now some excellent young women in this in- 
stitution. While we were there a number of them were 
baptized, the first Shelter girls to be baptized. These no- 
ble examples of Christian womanhood stirred our hearts 
with gratitude to God for the efforts that had been made 
for them; for we knew that had it not been for this insti- 
tution some of these very girls would now be either public 
prostitutes or ‘ttemple girls,” which is as bad—not that 
they would have entered such lives from individual choice ; 
but when little girls they were either undesirable orphans, 
were abandoned by their parents, or.else sold by them to 
the brothels, to be kept there until old enough to serve 
such vile purposes. 

It costs only about fifty dollars a year to provide for 
one of these girls in the Shelter. Philanthropically in- 
PAGE FIFTY-TWO 


WORKERS IN THE PLANT 


clined people can not do better than to make arrangements 
through the Missionary Board to care for individual girls 
in this worthy institution. It is a noble work. In supply- 
ing the necessary funds for the support of even one girl, 
the giver can have the consciousness of protecting one 
of India’s unfortunates from a life that is worse than 
death and, at the same time, be giving her the privilege of 
hearing the gospel and being trained to the lofty pur- 
poses and ideals of Christian womanhood, with a place of 
honor and usefulness in the kingdom of God. 

The church also has another property at Cuttack. It 
consists of a fair-sized dwelling with outbuildings, en- 
closed by a wall. The name given this place is Mount 
House (see page 48). There are about seven and one half 
acres in the compound. ‘The deed of the property is held 
by the Church of God Association of India. This build- 


ing was formerly a missionary home, but it is now occupied 


by the Union Printing Works, managed by Bro. John A. 
D. Khan. Here about eighteen men are employed the year 
round printing books, tracts, leaflets, and a monthly peri- 
odical in Bengali called 
Friendly Counsellor. This 
magazine is devoted to the 
deepening of the Christian 
life. 

There is also a fair-sized 
congregation of the church 
at Cuttack. Here a glorious 
camp-meeting was held dur- 
ing the Christmas holidays, 
1919, during the time we 
were there, and we enjoyed 
so much the association of 
the saints of that place and 
the special privilege of meet- 
ing many of the ministers 
and missionaries from other 
parts of India who were 
gathered together on that 
occasion. 


There is also a congrega- 
tion of the church in Calcut- 
ta. Our work in India really began in Calcutta, over twen- 
ty years ago. Here Bros. John A. D. Khan and M. Moses, 
two well-known Indian ministers (whose pictures are 
shown on page 49), have their homes. Brother Khan is 
well known in America also, hence he needs no special in- 


A SUNDAY-SCHOOL CLASS IN INDIA 


troduction to the church. He is a converted Mohamme- 
dan. His work in India is somewhat general. He devotes 
some of his time to the local church in Calcutta; the pub- 
lishing work at Cuttack en- 
gages some of his attention; 
he makes annual evangelistic 
trips to South India, where 
he was instrumental in rais- 
ing up a work, and he now 
assists in its direction; he al- 
so spends some of his time in 
literary efforts, preaching 
in different mission stations, 
and lecturing to students. 

Bro. M. Moses is also a 
converted Mohammedan. In 
the past he has lived at Kur- 
seong, near Darjeeling. He 
is a faithful man, and a first- 
class general helper and per- 
sonal worker. He _ speaks 
English and Bengali, as well 
as Tibetan and other lan- 
guages. 

Calcutta is the general ad- 
ministrative headquarters of our missionary work in India. 
Bro. F. W. Heinly and wife (photograph page 49) live in 
the mission house shown on page 54. Brother Heinly was 
formerly the Managing Editor of the Gospel Trumpet 
and is well known to the church. Since taking up his 

PAGE FIFTY-THREE 


residence in Calcutta he has been appointed by the Mis- troublesome problems, harmonizing our efforts as a Board, 
sionary Board as its Field Secretary for India. His and creating greater efficiency in the work on the field, 
thereby insuring greater success. The last section of that 
general policy reads: ‘That missionary funds supplied 
by this Board are to be administered through special 
representatives on the field who are under the direct au- 


MINISTERS AND MISSIONARIES AT ‘THE CUTTACK 
CAMP-MEETING, Dec. 24—Jan. 1, 1919-20 


duties and responsibilities in this particular position are 
many. 

In the introduction to this book I referred to the tet SENOS TEER UE NL, cere aS 

: : ae General Indian Headquarters 

complicated nature of foreign missionary work. <A quo- 
tation was made from a general policy passed by the Mis- thority and control of this Board.” ‘This section calls 
sionary Board on June 10, 1920, which shows in a general for a particular type of field organization. 
way the method we have adopted for solving some of these In order to show that the Missionary Board is proceed- 
PAGE FIFTY-FOUR 


ing with its work in an orderly, businesslike way, thus tinguished from all ecclesiastical authority and from all 
guaranteeing the proper distribution and use of the funds financial responsibility originating in and thus belonging 
inherently to India. We have created the office of Field 


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entrusted to it, and in order also to convey a clear idea re 
of how our work is actually carried on in a foreign field, Alan aayjitie fre! SH age 
I shall quote from the official records of the Board our J (SA 
plan of field organization as established in India. Atal iL lar, 26. Bd “fae sb, Us 
“In view of conditions as we know them and in order FIRST AND FOURTH STANZAS OF ‘‘BACK TO 
to fill an urgent need, we have decided to adopt a simple. ,_, THE BLESSED OLD BIBLE 


feereet Hymns, No. 110), in Hindustani, the most 


izati f missionar 
form of field organization of that phase of mi y a et teney ca lencreaet Liri 


responsibility belonging to us; an organization that will So 
be limited in the scope of its operations to those financial eee for India, the incumbent of which will be the 
matters which directly concern the home church, as dis- direct representative of this Board. 

| PAGE FIFTY-FIVE 


MISSION HOUSE AT SHILLONG, ASSAM 


DUTIES OF 


“1. It shall be the duty of the Field Secretary to wrge 
the performance of such business in India as directly con- 
cerns the Missionary Board. 

“2. He shall see that a proper unified budget covering 
all our proposed work in India is prepared and forwarded 
to the Missionary Board each year. The manner in which 
this budget is prepared does not concern us. The spirit- 
ual leaders of the church in India who have the work at 
heart may choose their own methods of mapping out a har- 
monious program for their work, but the part of the pro- 
gram which is contingent upon the supply of American 
funds must be presented to the Field Secretary and trans- 
mitted by him to this Board. 


PAGE FIFTY-SIX 


“3. It shall be his duty to inquire concerning the items 
of the proposed budget, to consider carefully every local 
project dependant on mission funds, so that not only the 
immediate cost will be understood, but also the probable 
additional cost such projects will be to future budgets. 

“4. It shall be his duty whenever submitting budgets 
to this Board to give such information as he has reason to 
believe the Board would desire to have, and to transmit 
such suggestions and recommendations concerning the 
budget as he, as the Board’s special representative, shall 
see fit: all decisions concerning the budget, however, in- 
cluding allowance scales, to be made by the Missionary 
Board itself at Anderson, Ind.... 

“5. He shall endeavor to secure such missionary infor- 


MINISTERS AND GOSPEL WORKERS IN ASSAM 


MEETING-HOUSE AT CHERRAPUNJI, ASSAM 


mation as the Board shall from time to 
time request. 

“6. He shall be the T'reaswrer in India 
of the Missionary Board of the Church 
of God, of Anderson, Indiana, U. S. A. 
All money intended for the Indian work 
shall be handled or banked by him in the 
name of the Missionary Board of the 
Church of God, of Anderson, Ind., and 
shall be administered by him, to our mis- 
sionaries and Indian workers in such man- 
ner and at such times as the Board shall 
direct. 

“7. He shall furnish the Board re- 
ports of all business done by him and of 
all monies expended by him at such times 
as the Board shall direct. 


“8. It shall be his duty to visit personally the different sections 
of our work in India, so as to keep in touch with its progress and 
secure first-hand information concerning everything that concerns 
us. It is our desire that he shall carefully and prayerfully endeavor 
to encourage the brethren in their efforts to succeed, working with 
them in every way possible for the advancement of the common cause. 

“9. It shall be his duty to cooperate with the other missiona- 
ries and the capable Indian leaders in the formation of practical 
plans so that capable workers can be encouraged and the incompe- 
tent and the unworthy eliminated. 


CONGREGATION AT THE PHALI, ASSAM, CAMP-MEETING, February, 1920 
PAGE FIFTY-SEVEN 


MEETING IN TRAVANCORE, SOUTH INDIA, FEBRUARY, 1920 
Showing Pandal in Distance 


“10. He shall have the power to dismiss from the service of the Mis- 
sionary Board of the Church of God, of Anderson, Ind., workers proved 
guilty of immorality or crime, or of conduct or behavior inimical to the 
cause which the mission represents. We advise, however, that in all such 
cases the matter be considered, if possible, with other capable brethren 
before such action is taken. 

**All our missionaries and Indian leaders shall be free to write to the 
Missionary Board anything they choose respecting their work, or con- 
cerning the work of others in India. This provision is made so that the 
Board will have the advantage of information of every kind; so that the 
missionaries and workers will have th: opportunity of pressing important 
claims upon the attention of the Board; and so they may also have the 
PAGE FIFTY-EIGHT 


privilege of being heard by the Board in 
special cases where a difference of opinion 
concerning business matters arises between 
them and the Field Secretary.” 

From Calcutta we went to Darjeeling, 
in the Himalaya mountains, a place sur- 
rounded with the most marvelous beauties 
of nature, the gigantic peaks of the Kin- 
chinjunga range, second highest in the 
world, showing clearly. We have but lit- 
tle missionary work in Darjeeling. Bro. 
Andrew Shiffler (page 48) is engaged 
there in a colporteur’s work and he occu- 
pies a suite of four rooms. He distributes 
literature to the Tibetans and Nepalis who 


SOME MINISTERS IN TRAVANCORE 


live in the city. He also gathers in some of their children 
and teaches them hymns and Scripture portions. His best 


GROUP OF MINISTERS AT CANNANORE 


work, perhaps, is done when he makes his periodical visits 
to the borders of Tibet and Nepal to give out literature. 
These journeys he makes on foot, with coolies walking 
along with him to carry his food and luggage. One of 
these journeys is nearly two hundred miles and requires 
considerable sacrifice and effort for a man of his age. 

Our work in the Khasi Hills, Assam, which we visited 
next, is very fruitful. From Shillong as a center the truth 
has spread until there are at present about thirty congre- 
gations scattered here and there, with an aggregate mem- 
bership of six or seven hundred saints. This field is under 
the charge of Brother and Sister J. M. Nichols-Roy 


(photographs page 48), and they have associated with 
them about thirty Indian ministers and helpers. 

There is a large, spiritual congregation at Shillong, 
where Brother and Sister Roy have their home, in the mis- 
sion house shown on page 56. Some of those who now 
sing the praises of the Lord were once devil-worshipers ; 
in fact, hundreds in the Khasi Hills are coming direct from 
darkest heathenism and devil-worship to the heights of 
Mount Zion, the church of the living God. In the few 
days which we spent in the camp-meeting at Phali, four- 


LOW CASTE SCHOOL AT KUNNAMKULAM 


teen souls were saved, eleven of whom came directly from 

the ranks of heathenism. 
Brother Roy publishes a periodical in the vernacular, 
directs the printing of other literature when necessary, 
PAGE FIFTY-NINE 


and takes general oversight of the spiritual work through- 
out Assam, a work that is commendable in every way. 
Our next visit was with the church in South India. At 


Chenganur, in T'ra- 
vancore, there is a 
church established, 
and there we took 
part in a _ large 
gathering, when 
thousands of peo- 
ple assembled under 
the pandal erected 
for the purpose and 
listened attentively 
to the preaching of 
the word of the 
Lord. A number 
of Indian ministers 
are working in that 
section,oneof whom 
is Bro. P. J. Philip. 
Brother Philip also 
edits a_ periodical 
in Malayalam, the 


language of that part of the country. 
group on page 58, second from reader’s left.) 


We also had a pleasant and profitable visit with the 
church at Cannanore, on the Malabar Coast, which is 
under the oversight of Bro. J. N. Spadigam, a tried broth- 
er who for years has acted as interpreter in meetings held 


PAGE SIXTY 


reader’s left. 


GROUP OF SAINTS AT CANNANORE, ON THE MALABAR COAST, INDIA 


(He is shown in 


by Brothers Khan, Tasker, and others from the North. 
He is shown in picture on page 59, front row, second from 


We also _ have 
work and brethren 
scattered in other 
parts fot windia; 
which we did not 
get to visit while in 
that country. In 
addition to our own 
missionaries, the 
Missionary Board 
is at this time giv- 
ing partial or total 
support to about 
forty-three Indian 
ministers and gos- 
pel workers, and we 
have knowledge of 
about twenty-three 
others who are en- 
tirely self-support- 
ing. The brethren 


are now opening up district work in a new place, at Kuri- 
gram, in Bengal, and they are expecting good results. 


We have reason to thank God for the faithful follow- 
ers of our Lord who are serving him in far-away India. 
They need our constant prayers and support. Let us not 
forget to pray earnestly for them. 


CL(KS PGaye? a 


COZ 


OLITICALLY speaking Egypt comprises an area of 
about four hundred thousand square miles; but the 
habitable portion, that narrow strip of land extending 
along the Nile, embraces an area of 
only about nine thousand square miles. 
This land, however, is extremely fer- 
tile and sustains a population of about 
twelve million. About nine tenths of 
these are Sunnite Mohammedans, the 
rest principally Copts, remains of the 
ancient Egyptian church which traces 
its origin to John Mark. The Copts 
respect the Bible and permit the use 
of it by their members, and it is from 
this class that Protestant Christianity 
has won nearly all of its Egyptian 
converts. Very few Moslems in Egypt 
have been converted to Christianity. 
A short sketch of the origin of our » 
work in Egypt will be interesting. In _ | %, 
1907 Bros. H. A. Brooks and G. P. ee 
Tasker made a missionary journey to 
India, where they remained about a 
year. On their way East they stopped 


wsOUIERRANEAN € 


5 


for a short time in Egypt. They had been in correspond- 
ence with an Egyptian brother who requested them to hold 
some meetings when they arrived in that country, and 


this they decided to do. Believing that 
there was a good opening for the truth 
in Egypt at that time they sent a re- 
quest to the brethren in America for 
Bro. E. A. Reardon to come. Short- 
ly after he arrived the other two 
brethren proceeded on their way to 
India, leaving him alone. He labored 
patiently, under great difficulty, for 
a number of months, spending most of 
his time at Assiout, though he was 
also at Alexandria for a short time. 
The year following Brother Rear- 
don returned to America, without 
leaving behind him many visible re- 
sults. A few souls had been won to the 
truth, some of whom are still stand- 
ing firm, and the precious seed of the 
gospel had been planted in other 
hearts to bring forth fruit afterward. 
Shortly before he left an incident oc- 
PAGE SIXTY-ONE 


curred which shows how God sometimes works when men 
are unconscious of his working. 

While Brother Reardon was in Al- 
exandria, the way was opened, provi- 
dentially we might say, for him to be 
entertained at the home of an Ar- 
menian brother named Moughalian, a 
merchant. Brother Moughalian in- 
troduced him to another Armenian, a 
doctor of medicine and a minister of 
the Seventh-day Adventist faith—G. 
K. Ouzounian. After spending some 
time in conversation and_ prayer, 
Brother Reardon gave the doctor 
some literature, including Two Works of Grace, Sancti- 
fication, and Sabbath and the Lord’s Day. The minister 
requested Brother Reardon to come to one of his meet- 
ings and preach for him, which he did, and the preaching 
made a deep impression upon several who were gathered 
there that day. Brother Reardon then returned to Upper 
Egypt for a short time, after promising the doctor to call 
on him when he returned to Alexandria. 


G. K. Ouzounian 


The literature which had been left was not read at that 
time. A few weeks later Brother Reardon returned to 
Alexandria to take ship for America. In his mail from 
the States he found a copy of a new book just published, 
The Revelation Explained, and with this in his hand he 
went to visit the Armenian minister and bid him good-by. 
When Brother Ouzounian saw that book he was interested 
in it at once and asked to purchase it, and the book was 
PAGE SIXTY-TWO 


turned over to him just before the ship sailed. Prophecy 
was an attractive subject to Brother Ouzounian, and by 
this means especially he was won to the truth. He then 
read the other books that had been left with him, and these 
completed the work of establishing him in this reformation. 
Of course, he was comparatively unknown at the time to 
the brethren in America. 

In 1912 Wife and I went to Syria to engage in mis- 
sionary work. We were accompanied by Bro. G. P. 


MISSIONARY HOME IN CAIRO, EGYPT 


Tasker, who was en route to India. Before we reached 
Egypt, on the way to Syria, we were not aware of any 


established work in that country that could be depended 
on as reliable. We had heard of Bro. G. K. Ouzounian, 
of Cairo, but knew little about him. But when we reached 
Alexandria a number of people who had been brought out 
under his labors met 
us at the steamer, 
and we had meetings 
with them that day. 
When we reached 
Cairoand met Broth- 
er Ouzounian we felt 
that he was a true 
man of God. He 
urged Wife and me 
to return to Egypt 
on an _ evangelistic 
tour. This we de- 
termined to do. So 
in the month of Feb- 
ruary, 1913, we re- 
turned from Beirut 
to Alexandria and 
there held services 
for five weeks. Brother Ouzounian was with us and a good 
work was accomplished. The church there was doubled in 
numbers and encouraged and strengthened in the truth. 

We then accompanied Brother Ouzounian to Cairo and 
held meetings with his congregation there for about three 
weeks, which also resulted in good to the church. At the 
close of these meetings we had obtained sufficient acquaint- 


A SUNDAY-SCHOOL CLASS AT CAIRO 


ance with the work already begun by Brother Ouzounian 
to know that it could be depended on. 

I had still further opportunity for association with 
Brother Ouzounian, for the following summer he and I 
made a special mis- 
sionary trip togeth- 
er through the Bal- 
kan States, traveling 
in Roumania, Turk- 
ey, Asia Minor, and 
northern Syria, and 
then after returning 
to Beirut my wife ac- 
companied us to the 
island of Cyprus, 
where we also held 
meetings. 

So it was by means 
of this chain of 
providential circum- 
stances that Brother 
Ouzounian was led 
out into and estab- 
lished in the present truth, as a result of which we can 
trace all our work in Egypt today. 

When Brother Reardon and I reached Egypt from 
India in March, 1920, we were rejoiced to meet brethren 
with whom we had been associated in the work of the Lord 
in the past. We landed at Port Said on March 2, and 
were met at the wharf By Bro. Yanko Ayianoghlou, a 


PAGE SIXTY-THREE 


GROUP OF BRETHREN IN CAIRO 


Greek brother, who assisted us in getting through the cus- 
toms. Before proceeding to Cairo we called on three 
Syrian sisters, fruits of our former work in Syria, who 
were teaching in a school. 

When we arrived at Cairo we received a warm welcome 
from Brother Ouzounian and his family, and many others, 
who had come to the station to meet us. Every kindness 
PAGE SIXTY-FOUR 


was shown us by these dear saints of the 
Lord. 

We have no American missionary work- 
ing in Egypt at present, but Brother Ou- 
zounian is a very capable, dependable man 
and he takes general oversight of the 
work. Cairo with its million souls is the 
center of operations. In this large city 
we have a congregation of perhaps sixty 
people. A number of brethren and sis- 
ters have gone to other places. The con- 
gregation is composed principally of 
Egyptians and Armenians. Bro. Habib 
Yousef (photo page 68) has pastoral 
charge of the Egyptians. About half of 
the congregation are Armenians, gathered 
out through the labors of Brother Ouzoun- 
ian, and he takes oversight of them. 

The brethren in Cairo have a suitable 
place for services, with living-rooms for 
the Egyptian pastor adjoining, about fif- 
teen minutes’ walk from the central rail- 
way-station. ‘The preaching is mainly in 
Arabic, the language of Egypt, and the one which nearly 
all the people of the congregation understand, but ser- 
vices are also held in which the Armenian language is used. 

There is great need for work in Egypt, but the diffi- 
culties are also great. One of the greatest drawbacks is 
the general lack of dependability in the Egyptian charac- 
ter. Of course, there are exceptions to this rule, but the 


exceptions are comparatively few. It will 
doubtless require a long period of time to 
develop in them the same principles of 
trueness, truthfulness, and stability that 
are to be found in many other peoples. 


Another hindrance to the success of the 
work in that land is the seclusion of the 
women. Men attend religious services 
freely, but the women are generally left 
at home, or if they come they are given an 
inferior place on the opposite side of a 
partition in the church building. When 
women are made to feel that they have no 
active part in religion they do not embrace 
it with any earnestness, and thus their in- 
fluence for good over coming generations 
is lost. And that is one of the main 
troubles in Egypt today. Depress tlie 
women, and the poor mothers of this gene- 
ration can not possibly lend to their sons 
and daughters those ennobling traits and 
characteristics so necessary to the welfare 
of the nation; but educate, enlighten, and 
Christianize the women as well as the men, then the godly 
influence of mothers over their sons and daughters will ele- 
vate the next generation and thus prepare the way for 
true progress and happiness. 

The brethren at Cairo have a distributing-station for 
our literature. English literature is being handled in 
large quantities, and much good is accomplished through 


ANOTHER GROUP IN CAIRO 


this medium. ‘They have also begun the publication in 
Arabic of the Gospel Trumpet, and this periodical will be 
circulated in the Arabic-speaking countries, such as 
Egypt, Palestine, Syria, etc., thus assisting in the work 
elsewhere. They also have ready for publication in Arabic 
a translation of the book What the Bible Teaches, and this 
will be published as soon as means permit. 

PAGE SIXTY-FIVE 


We also have had a number of brethren and sisters at 
Port Said, but most of those have come to America or 


PART OF CONGREGATION AT ARMENIAN 
REFUGEE CAMP, PORT SAID © 


gone to Armenia. Brother Ayianoughlou, 
whose photograph, together with some Sun- 
day-school scholars,is shown on this page, lives 
there and he does what he can to encourage 
the saints and to distribute literature on the 
ships that come from the many nations and 
of which there are at all times numbers an- 
chored in the harbor. ‘This is a_ splendid 
opportunity to do good, and this brother loves 
the Lord and his work, is full of zeal, and is 
self-sacrificing. A good work was done by 
him and others during the time the Armenian 
refugee camps were established at Port Said. 

Alexandria is the second largest city in 


Egypt and its greatest seaport, having a population of 
nearly a half million, many of whom are Greeks, Armen- 
ians, Italians, and Syrians, besides a number of English. 


PAGE SIXTY-SIX 


DISTRIBUTING ARMENIAN 
GOSPEL TRUMPETS 
IN THE REFUGEE CAMP 


We have a very good work there. As at Cairo, this 
church also is made up of Egyptians and Armenians. 


Sister Z. Tabakian, a humble 
and worthy servant of the 
Lord, has charge of the Armen- 
ian services, and she is assisted 
by Marie Tchooljian. (See 
photographs on page _ 67.) 
Bro. Abdul Talut Michail, a 


bright, zealous, and consecrat- 


Y. L. AYIANOUGHLOU WITH 
SOME SUNDAY-SCHOOL 
SCHOLARS 


ed young man, has charge of the Egyptian work. 
There is a promising field for future missionary activity 
both in Cairo and in Alexandria. The work, of course, is 


UUSHPONS ESELEEL at eHSbiN, 


CHURCH OF GOD MISSION AT ALEXANDRIA 


difficult, but God is able to supply the help and grace 
whereby his own servants can triumph over difficulties and 
accomplish the work he designs for them to do. 

We also have some work in Egypt at Minieh, a city of 
nearly fifty thousand inhabitants about 150 miles up the 
Nile from Cairo. At the time we visited the work there 
were about seventeen men and twelve women in the congre- 
gation, although the attendance was much larger. ‘There 
had beenmore brethren, but several had moved away during 
the past few years. Bro. Hanna Arsanious (shown on 
page 68) is the pastor, and he has in his wife a helper 
who is spiritual and of good judgment. She has been 
encouraged to start special work among the Egyptian 
women. 

The brethren at Minieh have a suitable place of wor- 
ship, in a good location, and judging from Brother Ar- 
sanious’ reports, as well as from our own observation while 


there, the work is commendable. 

Brother Arsanious is the brother who first. obtained 
some of our literature from America and who extended to 
Brothers Tasker and Brooks the invitation to stop and 
preach in Egypt. He also served as interpreter for 


ARMENIAN PASTOR AND HER ASSISTANT, 
ALEXANDRIA 


Zarouhi Tabakian (at reader’s right) and Marie 
Tchooljian 


Brother Reardon during his work there in 1907-8. 
Wasta is a city near Minieh. We have a few brethren 
PAGE SIXTY-SEVEN 


there, who are cared for by Bro. Tewfik Mikhail (shown 
on this page), a young man who is in the employ of the 


government. 


We have also had work at Fayoum, an important city 


lying inland west 
of ‘th emeNile A 
few brethren still re- 
main, but they are 
without a pastor. © 
Besides the saints 
in the places men- 
tioned, there are iso- 
lated brethren at dif- 
ferent places who 
know the way and 
are loyal to _ the 
truth. Among these 
is Bro. Mosad Ar- 
manious, of Assiout, 
some of the fruits of 
Brother Reardon’s 
first labors in Egypt, 
and who has stood 
true from the first. 
We trust that some 


(Minieh) 


GROUP OF MINISTERS IN EGYPT 
Hanna Arsanious G K. Ouzounian Tewfik Mikhail 


(Cairo) 


The congregation at Alexandria is entirely self-support- 
ing; in fact, it has been making contributions to the cen- 
tral work at Cairo for the purpose of assisting in the 
publication of gospel literature in Arabic. 


(Wasta.) 


Habib Yousef 
(Cairo) 


There are many 
opportunities in 
Egypt for spread- 
ing the pure gospel 
of the _ kingdom. 
Aside from the mil- 
lions of needy native 
imhabitants, many 
thousands of people 
visit the country an- 
nually and ofttimes 
by means of litera- 
ture the gospel seed 
can be planted in the 
honest hearts among 
them. 

Anciently Egypt 
was “the house of 
bondage” out of 
which God’s people 
fled. Egypt is still 


day he will be free to devote all his time to the work of the a house of bondage to the millions of her inhabitants who 

Lord. are deep in sin. But today, thank God, people need not 
The church in different parts of Egypt has been mak- flee from the country in order to gain their liberties. The 

ing commendable efforts toward self-support. We are strong, outstretched arm of our loving Lord ean bring 

thankful for this manifestation of true love for the cause. deliverance to the captives even in dark Egypt. 

PAGE SIXTY-EIGHT : 


[): 


| RS 


SY RelA 


Qe’ the country lying at the east end of the Medi- 
terranean Sea, is a place of intense interest to all 

Christian people because of its being the very land in which 

the Bible was written, where our Lord walked in the days 

of his flesh, and where Christianity had 

its birth. 

Syria is not a heathen land, but the 
majority of the people are Mohamme- 
dans, and it is generally considered 
more difficult to convert Moslems than 
the heathen. But there is also a large 
Christian population. The principal 
churches in the Near East are the Ja- 
cobite, Maronite (allied with the papa- 
cy), Nestorian, Catholic, Gregorian 
(Armenian), and the Greek Orthodox. 
Certain Protestant churches are also 
represented, but their con- 
verts are comparatively few 
in number. The great ma- 
jority of the Christian pop- 
ulation in Syria are con- 
nected with the Greek Orth- 
odox Church. 


The native churches of the East are in all practical re- 
spects asleep. ‘They possess few of those vital elements 
that give character and power to evangelical Protestant 
Christianity. During the centuries past no reformation 
has broken the silence of the 
years or disturbed the poise 
of these historic relics. But 
it is only fair to say that 
these churches have, never- 
theless, done an immense 
service to that land. While, 
generally speaking, they 
have not elevated the people 
to the height of personal 
salvation in Christ, they 
have prevented a total lapse 
to idolatry, Mohammedan- 
ism, or open infidelity ; they 
have kept alive the name of 
God, some knowledge of the 
true religion of our Lord 
Jesus Christ, and a love 
for the Sacred Scriptures. 

The Bible is now printed 


PAGE SIXTY-NINE 


with’ PALESTINE 
AND THE COAST oF 
FGYPT & ASIA MINOR. 


F. G. Smith 


Birdie M. Smith Bessie Byrum 


and freely circulated in the language of the people, and it 
is read and respected by them, with the single exception 
of the Maronites, who, because of their papal connections, 
share the general Catholic hostility to the private reading 
and interpretation of the Word of God. 

Our work in Syria is still in its infancy; but a good 
foundation has been laid, and there is a bright prospect 
for future development. A brief sketch of its origin and 
development to date will be interesting and profitable. 


In the early part of 1912 Sister Bessie (Hittle) Byrum 
answered a call to teach in a native school in the village of 
Shweifat, Mount Labanon, a few miles from Beirut. As 
Brother and Sister G. P. Tasker expected to start for 
India in a few months, Sister Tasker decided to accompany 
Sister Hittle to Syria and remain there until Brother 
Tasker arrived en route to India. After these sisters took 
PAGE SEVENTY 


up their work in the school they made known to the Mis- 
sionary Board the need of a minister to come and raise 
up a congregation; so Wife and I went the same year, took 
up our residence in Shweifat, and labored there for nearly 
two years, returning to the United States just before the 
war broke out in 1914. 

We soon discovered that Shweifat was not a strategic 
place to begin work. We had not time to learn the Arabic 
language and there were but few educated men, under- 
standing English, in the place. However, during this time 
a small congregation was raised up, composed entirely of 


MISSION HOUSE IN SHWEHIFAT, SYRIA 
Formerly Occupied by F. G. Smith and Wife 


women. In due time some of these became very well estab- 
lished and two of the number are now capable ministers 


of the gospel. My wife was specially useful in establishing 
the work and she became very much attached to the warm- 


MINISTERS IN SYRIA 
Nellie S. Laughlin; Adele Y. Jureidini 


hearted Syrian people, and found it difficult to leave them 
at the end of our period of service. During the time of 
our stay there we came in contact with Najeeb Berberi, of 
Berbarah, Mount Lebanon, a Syrian native minister who 
had formerly visited the United States. 

Late in 1913 Sister Nellie S. Laughlin also went to 
Syria to teach in the native school; but in 1914, when the 
time approached for Wife and me to leave, Sisters Hittle 
and Laughlin felt that they should give their time wholly 


. 


to gospel work, which they did, successfully. ‘Then 
‘ame the war. Sister Hittle was called home to America, 
but Sister Laughlin decided to remain in Syria. For 
several years no communication with her or with the 
church in Syria was possible, but when peace came once 
more we found that most of the little church were still 
standing true and that even in spite of war’s difficulties 
and hindrances some others had been added to the Lord. 
Shortly after the war closed Sister Laughlin felt im- 
pressed that the work should be removed to Beirut, so 
in July, 1919, the change was made. The second floor of 
the house shown on page 72 was rented. In addition to 
living-rooms, there is 
a large room or hall 
which when seated with 
chairs accommodates 
seventy or seventy- 
five persons for relig- 
ious services. ‘Thus 
the building is a mis- 
sionary home and 
chapel combined. 


The removal to Bei- 
rut proved a blessing 
to the work. In a 
short time people be- 
came attracted to the 
meetings—not women 
only, as in Shweifat, 
but also respectable 


ANOTHER SYRIAN MINISTER 
Zahia Aswad, of Brummana 
PAGE .SEVENTY-ONE 


men, and some began to take their stand for the truth. 
When Brother Reardon and I arrived in Beirut, in 


MISSIONARY HOME AT BEIRUT, SYRIA 


March, 1920, on our world-tour, it seemed to me much 
like reaching home. How joyous was that meeting with 
the saints whom I had known in the years gone by and 
for whom I had labored in order to bring them to Christ! 
Arrangements had been made for a series of meetings, and 
these were well attended and much good was accomplished. 
Quite a number sought the Lord, and most of these, we be- 
lieve, received a definite experience of his grace. I had 
the privilege of baptizing twenty-one in the Mediterran- 
ean Sea. 

In Syria baptism is the great, decisive thing. 
PAGE SEVENTY-TWO 


When 


an adult Christian who was baptized (?) in infancy con- 
sents to be immersed, it signifies a break with past tradi- 
tions, and is almost certain to bring down upon the candi- 
date the reproaches and persecutions of his friends, hence 
few will take this step until fully convinced that it is God’s 
will. Brother Berberi, who was with us during our meet- 
ings there, reported fourteen brethren and sisters bap- 
tized in the district in which he works, north of Beirut 
near Tripoli. And in addition to the Beirut saints there 
were a number of the sisters living in Shweifat. So at 
that time there were forty or fifty saints of God in Syria 
who had discerned the true way of the Lord and taken 
their stand for it. 


INTERIOR, SHOWING ROOM USED FOR MEETINGS 


Our ministerial force in Syria is not large. At the time 
of this writing Sister Nellie S. Laughlin (photograph 
page 71, on reader’s left) is the only American missionary 
we have in this field. Bro. H. M. Rig- 
gle and wife are expecting to join her 
soon and help to push the work for- 
ward. We expect good results in the 
near future. Sister Laughlin has done 
a good work keeping the saints to- 
gether during the troublous period of 
the war, establishing them more firmly 
in the truth,and increasing the church, 
especially since the removal to Beirut. 

Sister Adele Y. Jureidini (photo- 
graph page 71, on reader’s right) was 
one of the first persons won to the 
truth at Shweifat, in 1912. The spiritual change wrought 
in her was complete, and she has developed into a very 
useful minister of the gospel of Christ. She is educated 
in English and Arabic. Upon her at present falls the chief 
burden of preaching in our services at Beirut. While 
there this last time we recognized her divine call and quali- 
fications by ordination. She has translated into Arabic 
the book What the Bible Teaches, which is soon to be 
published in Egypt. She has also translated other works. 


Sister Zahia Aswad (photograph page 71) was also one 
of the original converts at Shweifat, where at the time she 
was teaching in a native school. Her home, however, is in 
Brummana, Mount Lebanon. She is also educated in 
Arabic and English, is deeply spiritual, and is full of life 


Najeeb Berberi 


and activity. Shortly after she received the baptism of 
the Spirit, early in 19138, she felt a divine call to the min- 
istry of the Word and began to exercise in that capacity ; 
but when the war came on, in 1914, she was forced to sus- 
pend ministerial work and take upon herself the support 
of her mother. Her father and brother were in America, 
and when the mail-service stopped during the war all 
support from that source was cut off. And so for five 
years Zahia was separated even from the other saints in 


GROUP OF SAINTS AT BEIRUT 


Syria. The story of her privations and labors during 
those terrible years, when thousands died of starvation, 
PAGE SEVENTY-THREE 


reveals conditions that would have overwhelmed most per- 
sons; but notwithstanding these things she stood for God 
and is today a monument of his preserving grace and care. 
She holds services in Brummana and is desirous of giving 
all her time to gospel work as soon as it is possible. 

Brother Najeeb Berberi 
(photograph page 73) came 
in contact with the church 
while in America, before his 
return in. Syria. He is 
preaching north of Beirut in 
the district around Tripoli. 
He has been useful in bring- 
ing out a few people into the 
light. He makes frequent 
trips to Beirut and renders 
assistance to the work there. 
There other pro- 
spective workersin thechurch 
in Syria. 


are also 


The church in Syria is also 
making progress toward self- 
support. A regular system 
of offerings is maintained, 
and they take pleasure in do- 
ing what they can to spread the truth. They are giying 
regularly toward native ministers’ support and have sent 
liberal contributions to Egypt to assist in the publica- 
tion of the Arabic Gospel Trumpet and also the book 
What the Bible Teaches. 


PAGE SEVENTY-FOUR 


BAPTISMAL SERVICE IN SYRIA, 1920 
(Candidates on reader’s right) 


When viewed in comparison with conditions in heathen 
lands, the situation in Syria is favorable to the introduc- 
tion of the vital message of truth. In the Christian society 
we find so many things in common that it is possible to 
approach them in a sympathetic manner and enter into 
the confidence of many. 
Their respect for the Scrip- 
tures gives opportunity to 
bring home to them the liv- 
ing message of the Word. 
But the historic churches of 
the East have a tremendous 
grip on their people. They 
will not break away from 
their religions until they re- 
ceive a good knowledge of 
the truth and are drawn by 
the influences of divine pow- 
er and love. 


It is fortunate that most 
of our first converts in Syria 
come from the very best 
families. They are intelli- 
gent and educated, and these 
natural advantages, com- 
bined with the power and inspiration of God’s Spirit, 
have enabled them to rise above many serious obstacles. 
I have never met a people anywhere whose loving affection 
for the people of God is more intense than that found in 
this devoted band of Syrian saints. 


(SOV) 


Je WWE Is () IP 8 


reste greater part of Europe can not properly be re- 
garded as a missionary field, hence I shall not devote 
much space to a description of the work being carried on 


there. Numerous pictures of 
congregations, Sunday-schools, 
and church buildings might be 
given, but since this is a mission- 
ary book it is not consistent to 
make prominent in it the work of 
the church in nominal Christian 
lands. It is enough to show pic- 
tures of a few of those ministers 
of the church who are at present 
engaged in the work in Europe 
and whose names are already fa- 
miliar to many of the brethren 
in this country. No effort will 
be made to give a complete rec- 
ord of the progress of the work. 
nor to mention all the ministers 
who have had part in its develop- 
ment. 

In the year 1893 several min- 
isters went to England—G. R. 


EUROPE 


Achor and wife, John W. Daugherty, Lena L. Shoffner 
(Matthesen), and James Kriebel. A short time before 
this Brother Achor had made a trip there, also W. J. 


Henry, and J. H. and Hattie 
Rupert had taken up work in 
England. 

Most of these ministers did not 
remain long, but some work was 
established and a few of these 
first-fruits are still standing true 
to God. Several years later W. 
H. Cheatham and wife spent a 
few years in the British Isles, and 
in 1919-20 H. A. Brooks spent 
about ten months in evangelistic 
work there. Bro. Adam Allan, 
his wife, and his daughter, Na- 
omi, have spent the years since 
1909 in service in Scotland and 
Ireland, and they are still on the 
field. A number of ministers and 
missionaries bound for other 
lands have called there during 
these years and have given some 

PAGE SEVENTY-FIVE 


Otto Doebert Wm. Hopwood Hjalmer O. Hansen 


encouragement and assistance to the work. 

Bro. Wm. Hopwood, of Birkenhead, England, is one 
leading minister of the church in Britain. Other minis- 
ters are being raised up. ‘There is work established in 
England, Scotland, and Ireland, and we believe that the 
cause in the British Isles will soon enter upon a new era of 
prosper ity, brought about, in part at least, by the awak- 
ening consciousness of duty and obligation on the part of 
the saints themselves who are living there. They are be- 
ginning to realize more fully that it will never prosper un- 
til they arise in spiritual strength and do it themselves. 

There is quite an extensive work in Germany. Brother 
Reardon visited this field on his first trip to Egypt, and 
Wife and I also spent some time there in 1912, and again 
in 1914. At that time the work was in a flourishing con- 
dition, and it rejoiced our hearts to be in the company of 
so many saints who were on fire for God. 

PAGE SEVENTY-SIX 


The pioneers of 
our work in Ger- 
many were Bros. 
George Vielguth, 
Karl Arbeiter and 
wife, C. G. Neils, 
and Otto Doebert 
and wife. Numer- 
ous other minis- 
ters visited the 
work and_ spent 
some time in the 
service, such as 
August Schmitz, Robert Springer, and G. P. Tasker. 
Large congregations were raised up, and a missionary 
home was established at Essen. Much German literature, 
published by the German department of the Gospel Trum- 
pet Company, Anderson, Ind., was circulated. Arrange- 
ments were being made to transfer the German publishing 
work to Essen when the war came on. The work there 
suffered greatly during the war period, and a number of 
the brethren, including some of the ministers, lost their 
lives in the conflict into which they were conscribed. We 
understand that a good work still remains, however, and is 
now entering upon another period of prosperity. 


Adam Allen 


C. J. Forsberg 


There is also a splendid work in Switzerland. Wife 
and I visited Winterthur in 1912 and were warmly wel- 
comed by the church. Robert Springer and wife, Karl 
Arbeiter and wife, and Otto H. Doebert and wife have been 
used of the Lord in establishing the work in that country. 


There are flourishing congregations at Winterthur, Basel, 
Zurich, and other places. 
Our work was also planted in Russia before the war. 


NELS RENBECK AND FAMILY 


Bro. Wm. Ebel and wife labored there, and the work was 
visited and assisted by Otto H. Doebert, Robert Springer, 
and others. The Gospel Trumpet was being published in 
the Russian language, also other literature, and congrega- 
tions were being established. ‘The war played sad havoc 
with the work, however, and at this writing we are still 
uninformed concerning its state. Brother and Sister Ebel 
left Russia during the early part of the war and got as far 
as Bucharest, Roumania, where they were detained for a 
long time by the German army of occupation; but they 
finally reached Switzerland, where Brother Ebel died. His 
photograph is shown on page 938. 


There is also work of the church established in Sweden 
and Denmark. Bro. C. J. Forsberg and wife are now at 
work in Sweden, and Bro. Nels Renbeck, Mary Renbeck, 
and Bro. J. G. Knudsen and wife, are laboring in Den- 
mark. Bros. O. T. Ring and S. O. Susag rendered service 
there in the past. Bro. Hjalmer O. Hansen is working in 
Norway. 

Before the war we also had groups of brethren in Rou- 
mania, Bulgaria, and Turkey in Europe, but they have 
probably been destroyed, for we have no further informa- 
tion concerning them. 

A little extra effort might secure a great advance in the 


MARY RENBECK AND ANNA (RENBECK) KNUDSEN 


European work but the Missionary Board feels that the 
first duty of the church in America is not to evangelical 
PAGE SEVENTY-SEVEN 


Protestant Europe, but to the heathen world—to those 
who know not God and his truth. The good seed of pres- 
ent truth already planted in Europe can be watered princi- 
pally by the people of those countries, who enjoy a Chris- 
tian civilization and have 
the means at their dis- 
posal for carrying for- 
ward their own work. 
However, we are giving 
some support to our 
work in Europe, in or- 
der to assist in getting 
it started; but we believe 
that with their help the 
result will soon be an ex- 
tensive self-directing and 
self-supporting work. 
From the foregoing it 
will be seen that most of 
the work done in Europe 
by our brethren has been 
in those countries where 
Protestantism flourishes. 
Those who have learned 
by blessed experience to 
appreciate the deeper things of God can not be satisfied 
with the formal churchianity so prevalent in Protestant 
Europe, and they naturally long to see the rest of the 
people of God in those enlightened countries brought to 
the higher standard of truth enjoyed by the saints in the 


PAGE SEVENTY-EIGHT 


Karl Arbeiter 


Mrs. Karl Arbeiter 


Mrs. Otto Doebert 


present reformation. But while the effort to lead Chris- 
tians to the realization of a higher life in Christ is a 
worthy one, such work can not properly be regarded as 
being strictly missionary in character. 


But there are large 
sections of Europe, dom- 
inated ~ principally by 
the Roman Catholic and 
Greek Orthodox  relig- 
ions, that may properly 
be regarded as mission- 
ary fields. Having these 
sections in view, as dis- 
tinguished from Protes- 
tant Europe, we can talk 
of missionaries to Eu- 
rope; we can see special 
needs looming up before 
us in Roumania, Bulgar- 
ia, Greece, and other of 
the Balkan States, and in 
Russia, Belgium, France, 
Spain, and Italy. Per- 
haps it is the plan of God 
first to establish the pres- 
ent truth in those Protestant countries of Europe that 
at the present time are more nearly prepared for it, and 
then to use our European brethren afterward in a mis- 
sionary capacity, by sending many of their able workers 
into the other needy fields surrounding them. 


Otto Doebert 
Mrs. Wm. Ebel 


= | 
West Indies, Canal Zone, and South America 


HE West Indies is the name given to a large archi- culture being developed. The population of the whole 

pelago in the Atlantic Ocean between the North and archipelago is about seven million, two thirds being ne- 
South American continents. These islands were the earli- groes or of African blood, although in Cuba and Porto 
est parts of the New World to be discovered by Co- 
lumbus during his voyage of exploration in 1492, 
and they were termed West Indies because at 
that time they were believed to be a part of India. | 
They were also the first parts of the New World to keen en 
be settled, and they served as a base for the Spanish 
explorations and expeditions of conquest on the 
mainland. 

The West Indian archipelago consists of the Ba- 
hama Islands, a group lying to the southeast of 
Florida, and the Greater and Lesser Antilles, a long 
chain of islands stretching in an irregular course 


° 


9 
from the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico eastward fe “Oe 
and southward to the mouth of the Orinoco, on the e x 
South American continent, thus enclosing the Carib- : at tere 
bean Sea between it and the mainland. * ) > 2, 


The total area of the archipelago is about ninety- yee FSS rane 
two thousand square miles. Most of the islands are ; 
mountainous. The climate is tropical. The indus- 
tries are mainly agricultural, sugar, tobacco, and 
coffee being extensively raised and fruit- and cotton- 


SOUTH AMERICA 


PAGE SEVENTY-NINE: 


Rico the whites 
are in the ma- 
jority. The 
European set- 
tlers are chief- 
ly descendants 
of the Span- 
ish, French, 
and English. 
There are also 
numerous im- 
ported Chi- 
nese and Indi- 
an coolies. The aboriginal population is almost extinct. 

The West Indies are much divided politically. Cuba 
and Haiti are independent republics, while most of the 
other islands are possessions of Great Britain, France, the 
Netherlands, Denmark, and the United States, the British 
possessions being by far the largest. 


Nellie Olson 


Geo. W. Olson 


Our missionary work in the West Indies is practically 
limited at present to Jamaica, in the Greater Antilles, and 
Barbados and Trinidad, in the Lesser Antilles. Brother 
Reardon and I did not visit this field on our missionary 
trip, hence I am not prepared to describe the work there 
as accurately as if I were writing from personal knowledge 
and experience, being obliged to depend for information 
upon incomplete records in our Office and such scattered 
information as can be gathered up here and there. 

For a number of years our brethren have been quite 
active in missionary work in the three islands named. Per- 
PAGE EIGHTY 


haps the principal reasons for the prominence given the 
West Indian work are to be found in the proximity of this 
field to our own doors, furnishing ready access; to the 
fact that the English language is spoken quite generally 
there, enabling the missionary to enter at once upon ef- 
fective work; and to the ripeness of the field. Our West 
Indian work has been visited, in part, by Bros. C. E. Orr, 
in 1906-7; E. E. Byrum, 1909-10; George W. Bailey, 
1918; and by some others. 


JAMAICA 


Jamaica is the largest of the British West Indian islands 
and is situated ninety miles south of Cuba. It is 144 miles 


ARCHIE RATHER AND FAMILY 


George and Nellie Olson, and they have been very successful in 
their work. Our records, though incomplete, show about thirty 
congregations or mission stations in the island; the number 
of communicants being about six hundred and the regular at- 
tendants over one thousand. Bro. Archie Rather and wife, 
Rebecca, went to join Brother and Sister Olson in 1919. They 


had formerly worked for about five years in Barbados and 
Trinidad. 


Sister Nellie Olson has written a brief sketch of the work in 
Jamaica, and I can not do better than to quote from her: 


“It was in the summer following the earthquake of January, 


CHURCH AT KINGSTON, JAMAICA 


in its greatest length and about 50 in its 
widest part. The area is about 4,207 
square miles, and the population about 
831,000. The island was discovered by 
Columbus during his second voyage, in 
May, 1494, and was taken possession of 
by the Spanish in 1509. The office of 
governor was held by the descendants of 
Columbus until the line became extinct. 
The island passed through many political 
vicissitudes until in 1866 it became a crown 


SHOWING OUR 
MISSIONARY STATIONS 


C Congregation. 
S- Sunday School. 


LPertAntonio CS. 5-Aingston CRS. 9-Albany C. /3.Viaterise C5. 18. Lucky Valley C.S. Re» Smithulle C5, &. Armadale CS. 
colony of Great Britain. ZSwift River C.  6-Thomasfield CS. 10. Oxford C. 14: Luidas Vale CS. 19- Brandon Hil) C5. 23. ThompsonJown C3. &F Ellen Street CS. 
2 = . . $.Gangor Ridges CS. 7 George's Hope S. 47. SpanishTown 5S. 1S. Guys Hill C. 20. Taremounts S. 24. Tweedside CS. 2 Blenheim (oy 
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i 1 e 
opened in 1907, by Brother and Sister 1 Chapetton CS. 


PAGE EIGHTY-ONE 


1907, that, in obedience to the leadings of the Spirit of God, we 
first came to Jamaica. We landed in Port Antonio on the morn- 
ing of July 29, but not feeling that that was where God would 
have us we took another ship and came around the island to Kings- 
ton, reaching here the following day. Kingston was still in a 
wrecked condition, heaps of brick, twisted zinc, and tangled wires 
were everywhere, for the work of reconstruction had not yet be- 
gun. But still we felt at home, and happy. A young man who 
had been a subscriber for the Gospel Trumpet and who at that 
time was selling the Trumpet Company’s literature helped us to 
find a furnished cottage, and we began housekeeping the same day. 
(This young man is still a faithful follower of the Lord Jesus.) 
Earthquake shocks were frequent; the season was very hot, for 
we were now in the tropics; the people were strange to us; and 
we had much to learn before we could hope to get to work, so 
for the first months, and I might say for two years, we were mere- 
ly laying a foundation for our labors. 


“Six months after we came, we were joined by Bro. A. S. 
McNeil, a native Jamaican whom we had met in Anderson, Ind., 
and who had embraced the doctrines of the church of God. We 
were very glad for his able assistance, and God blessed our work 
together. Before he came, we had gathered about us a few souls 
who were willing to walk in the Bible way, and with this little 
congregation here in Kingston our work began. Out from that 
center many other congregations have been raised up in the twelve 
years since that date. As souls were saved in our midst some re- 
mained awhile and then went back to their country homes. This 
kept our little flock very small in Kingston, but was the means 
of starting other congregations and centers for the truth in the 
island. And so from time to time Brother Olson and Brother 
PAGE EIGHTY-TWO : 


2 
4 
pf 

\ 


A. S. Mc Neil 
J. A. Mason 


G. S. Cohen 
Geo. W. Olson 


McNeil would go to the coun- 
try places to preach and streng- 
then the few who were being 
saved in those parts. 

“For the first six years we 
had up-hill work; since that 
time we have erected a good, 
substantial building here in 
Kingston, which has helped our 
work very much, though it is 
still arduous. At this time, 
however, there are upward of 
thirty congregations in the is- 
land where souls meet together 
for worship in no other name 
but the name of Jesus; and in 
many of these congregations we 
have Sunday-schools. In sev- 
eral places where there are no 
preaching services, there are Sunday-schools—we have 
about twenty-two Sunday-schools in all. Besides my hus- 
band and me there are three other ordained ministers and 
several unordained ministers giving all or most. of their 
time in gospel work. 

“At the present time our work is very heavy. With a 
good-sized congregation here in Kingston, meetings every 
night in the week but one, visiting the sick and looking 
after the spiritual needs of the congregation there is 
naturally much work; but that is not all. In many of 
our congregations in the island there is no regular pastor, 


GROUP OF SAINTS IN JAMAICA 


so there is need occasionally for one to visit them. This 
burden has been much upon our hearts for several years ; 
we need some one to look after the Kingston work, so that 
Brother Olson might be more free for general work. God 
has answered our prayers by sending Brother and Sister 
A. E. Rather to us, for which blessing we are exceedingly 
thankful, and the work here will profit by their coming.” 


TRINIDAD 


Trinidad is a British West Indian island situated close 
to the mouth of the Orinoco River. It was discovered by 
PAGE EIGHTY-THREE 


Columbus in 1498. 
It was formally ced- 
ed to Great Britain 
in 1802. The area 
of the island is 1,754 
square miles and the 
population about 
352,000. The sur- 
face is generally flat, 
although the north- 
ern part is traversed 
by parallel mountain 
chains running from 
east to west. In the 
southwestern part 
is the famous pitch 
lake La Brea, which yields asphalt for export. 

Agriculturally considered, Trinidad is one of the most 
successful islands of the British possessions in the West 
Indies, sugar, cacao, coffee, cocoanuts, and various kinds 
of fruits being produced abundantly. Commercially it 
also occupies the foremost position among the British 
West Indian islands. The population consists chiefly of 
the descendants of the slaves imported from Africa by the 
sugar-planters, and there is also a considerable number of 
coolies. The whites form an insignificant part of the 
population. 


Our work in Trinidad is not large, but it is substantial. 


The congregation at Port of Spain has about seventy-five 


communicants and a regular attendance of about one hun- 
PAGE EIGHTY-FOUR 


THADDEUS NEFF AND FAMILY 


dred. Another church, at Princestown, has about thirty 


communicants and an attendance of fifty. At San Fer- 
nando there are about forty communicants and sixty-five 
attendants. We also have a work at Carapichaima with 
about thirty communicants and fifty attendants. 


A number of our missionaries have labored in Trinidad. 
Bro. George Pye and wife are the ones who opened the 
work there, in 1906-08; Bro. E. N. Reedy followed, 1911- 
14; Bro. Archie Rather and wife, Rebecca (Byrum), also 
spent their first period of service in the West Indies in 


MISSIONARY HOME AND CHAPEL 
San Fernando, Trinidad 


Trinidad, 1911-15; and Bro. Thaddeus Neff was also 
there from 1911-16, when he came home, then he returned 
again to this field in 1918 and he and his wife are now 
engaged there; and Bro. Frank Steimla and wife labored 
there from 1916-20. Other missionaries who were either 
there for a very short time or else called on evangelistic 
trips are Sister Katie 
Diezel (Beaver), Bros. 
IN Duncan, Le 
Roy Bryant, W. L. 
Brookover, George Q. 
Coplin and J. Frank 
Shaw. At this writ- 
ing Brother Neff and 
wife are the _ only 
missionaries we have 
stationed regularly in 
the island. 


BARBADOS 


Barbados, the most 
easterly of the West 
Indian islands, is a possession of Great Britain. It has 
an area of 166 square miles and a population of about one 
hundred and eighty thousand. The surface is generally flat 
along the coast, but is elevated in the interior, where 
Mount Hillaby rises to the height of eleven hundred feet. 
The climate is healthful. Almost the entire island is under 
cultivation, sugar, coffee, cotton, tobacco, indigo, and ar- 
rowroot being produced. The fishing-interests are also of 


SUNDAY-SCHOOL 
Port of Spain, Trinidad 


importance. The capital and principal port (the only 
harbor on the island) is Bridgetown. 

‘We have a splendid work in Bridgetown, where The 
Grange, a spacious missionary home, is located and 
where we also have a nice church building recently erected. 
There is also work at Speightstown, Mile and Quarter, 

and other places. 


Bro. N. S. Duncan 
was in Barbados in 
1906 and in 1908, and 
he and his wife return- 
ed there to spend sev- 
eral months in evange- 
listic work in 1919. 
Bro. George Q. Coplin 
was very useful in 
building up the work 
there during his first 
period of service in 
the West Indies, 1911- 
13, and again in 1916- 
19, when he and his 
wife worked there. Bro. James Tallen and wife also did 
good service. Le Roy Bryant also spent the time from 
1916-19 in Barbados. Bro. J. Frank Shaw went in 1911 
and remained six years. His service was of special value, 
not only to Barbados, but to Trinidad as well. After a 
two-year furlough in America he returned to the field, 
with his wife Susan (Byrum) early this year. Bro. W. L. 
and Sister Opal Brookover went to Barbados in 1916, 


PAGE EIGHTY-FIVE 


and they are proving very useful to the work there. 
Other workers have also spent short periods of service 
in Barbados. 

Bridgetown is not only the head- 
quarters of our work in Barbados, but 
it has certain advantages that may 
soon make it a sort of operative cen- 
ter for the administrative work of a 
much larger field. It is proposed that 
a school for the training of native 
ministers and gospel workers be estab- 
lished there, and that annual camp- 
meetings be held there for the general 
good of the West Indian work, 
at which time an effort will be 
made to have one or more representative ministers 
of the church in America present. If these plans are 
carried through they will doubtless result in a 
marked advance in the work. 


J. Frank Shaw 


There is an excellent opportunity for work in Bar- 
bados. ‘The people attend the services well and they 
respond quite freely to the gospel message. It is no 
difficult task, so I am informed, to have a hundred or 
more consecrations in a series of evangelistic meet- 
ings. While the masses of the population in this 
island, as well as elsewhere in the West Indies, are 
wretchedly poor, they need the gospel nevertheless, 
and many of them receive it joyfully. The poor 
should have the gospel preached to them. 

Our work in the three islands of the British West 
PAGE EIGHTY-SIX 


Indies—Jamaica, Trinidad, and Barbados—is very en- 
couraging. We have recently supplied our missionaries 
there with automobiles so that they can quickly reach the 
various parts of their islands and minister to the congre- 
gations that are scattered. By this means the efficiency 
of each missionary is practically doubled, and it is a great 
financial saving if we can accomplish more work with few- 
er men by simply providing mechanical means of trans- 
portation. 

Most of the native brethren in these islands are poor 
and they have no room and no accommodations whatever 
for entertaining missionaries, hence it has been difficult in 
the past for our workers to go long distances and hold 


‘“‘THE GRANGE,’’ 


BRIDGETOWN, BARBADOS 


meetings, on account of this lack of a 
place to stay. But with the automobile 
at hand it is now different. In Barbados, 
for example, roads are good, and it is pos- 
sible for our missionaries to hold night 
services in any town in the island and still 
spend their nights at home in the mission- 
ary stations where rooms and other ac- 
commodations are already provided. 


Under this system the missionaries can 
maintain a general oversight of the work 
in every section of their respective fields 
and know how things are prospering. 
Even though native pastors are provided 
for different stations and congregations, 
there is much need, in most cases at least, 
of frequent visits from the missionary in 
charge and a proper oversight of the en- 
tire work. Those who have had practical 
experience among backward peoples in the 
missionary field can best appreciate the 
necessity of this kind of general care and 
oversight. 


Roy Bryant. 


CANAL ZONE 


We have some work also in the Canal Zone, under the 
care of Bro. E. F. Brewster and wife. There is a nice 
missionary home and chapel, the property of the church, 
located at Colon, and there is also a large congregation at 
Cristobal. There is a good opportunity in the Canal 


GROUP OF WEST INDIAN MISSIONARIES 


Back row from reader’s left—W. L. Brookover and Wife, G. Q. Coplin and Wife, 


Front row—Zella Brookover, Frank Steimla and Family. 


Zone of reaching many people. ‘There is need of a cap- 
able missionary to go there and take up work and help to 
push the cause more vigorously. 

Bro. E. E. Byrum visited the work in the Canal Zone 
on his missionary trip, in 1909-10; Bro. G. W. Bailey 
was there, in 1918; and Bro. George Olson calls there 
occasionally, his last visit being during 1920. 

PAGE EIGHTY-SEVEN 


BRITISH GUIANA, SOUTH AMERICA 


As yet we have but little work in South America, how- 
ever the door of opportunity is opening and we hope to 
make a greater effort in that direction in the future. A support of missions. 


number of our missionary 
brethren, including George 
Q. Coplin, N. S. Duncan, J. 
Frank Shaw, and W. L. 
Brookover, have made evan- 
gelistic trips to British Gui- 
ana, and we now have a work 
started there. There was a 
congregation in Georgetown 
that desired to take their 
stand in the way of the 
truth, and so with their pas- 
tor, G. L. Jeffries, they are 
now in working-relations 
with the church through the 
Missionary Board. We own 
the chapel. 

South America presents a 
great opportunity for mis- 
sionary effort. Protestant 


missionary societies have done comparatively little in this 
field. ‘The millions of people who inhabit those fair lands 
need the pure gospel as well as any one else in the world. 
Perhaps our work in the Lesser Antilles and in British 
Guiana can be made a sort of stepping-stone to the de- 
velopment of a stable church-work in South America. 


PAGE EIGHTY-EIGHT 


CHURCH AT BRIDGETOWN, 


BARBADOS 


CONCLUSION 


My task in writing this book is now almost completed. 
But I wish to say a few more words concerning the general 
It is the desire of the Board that 


all the churches make liberal 
contributions regularly to 
the foreign missionary work. 
We believe it to be the duty 
of every congregation, also 
of all isolated brethren and 
sisters, to do this. Mission- 
ary giving is the most unself- 
ish giving that we do. Mis- 
sionaries can not live, and 
their work prosper, unless 
the necessafy supply of 
funds is as regular as the 
recurring days of the week. 
All offerings for this cause 
should be sent direct to the 
Secretary of the Missionary 
Board of the Church of God, 
Anderson, Ind. 


We feel that the practise © 


of giving private support to missionaries should be dis- 
couraged. ‘The Missionary Board has knowledge of the 
needs of all the fields, and is in a position to make equitable 
distribution of finances and plan for the best interests of 
the work. 


All the principal missionary fields have had experience 


STREET-MEETING IN BRIDGETOWN, BARBADOS 
(J. Frank Shaw and wife, missionaries, in front row) 


with numerous “‘in- 
dependent” mission- 
aries, and the results 
have been almost un- 
iformly unsatisfac- 
tory. The independ- 
ent effort is so de- 
pendent upon the 
one who makes the 
attempt that in the 
event of his death or 
his leaving the field 
the work usually 
goes down. Facing 
such a_ situation, 
many independent 


missionaries have found it necessary to 
unite their work with a responsible mis- 
sionary board, so that they themselves 
may be free from the labor and worry of 
independent financing and so that the 
work itself will prove permanent. 

It occasionally happens that men whom 
the Missionary Board does not regard as 
fitted for certain lines of missionary work, 
or who do not have a proper standing in 
the home church, decide to go abroad on 
their own responsibility, and they make 
private appeals to congregations for 
financial support. While the congrega- 


GROUP OF SAINTS IN BARBADOS 


PAGE EIGHTY-NINE 


CONGREGATION AT CRISTOBAL, CANAL ZONE 
(E. F. Brewster and wife in center) 


cant is a capable, de- 
pendable person, of good 
repute among the breth- 
ren—then the Mission- 
ary Board will send him 
and will oversee the work 
afterward and_ provide 
for its success and per- 
manence. 


This does not neces- 
sarily imply that all who 
desire to go independent- 
ly are suspicious charac- 
ters, but sometimes good 
brethren have more zeal 
than knowledge. Some- 
times there is no question 
as to the worthiness of 
the candidate, but the 
Board is not convinced 
that work should be 
opened up, for example, 
in a new country, unless 
we are prepared, finan- 


tions are free to do as they desire, still it seems to cially and otherwise, to carry it through to success. The 
us that, considering the best interests of a great work, Board is financially conservative, believing that we should 
all independent efforts of that kind should be discouraged. not spread ourselves all over the earth more rapidly than 
If there is a proper opening for work, if the church is we are able to care for the work started. 

able, through its regular missionary offerings, to under- How I wish that every reader had the privilege already 
take responsibility for the proposed plan, and if the appli- given me of beholding face to face the thousands of our 


PAGE NINETY 


redeemed brothers and 
sisters of different races 
in the various foreign 
countries! I am _= sure 
that your hearts would 
be touched. You could 
not refrain from  shed- 
ding tears of joy and 
gratitude when you 
thought of what rich 
treasures these will be in 
the kingdom of light and 
life beyond. To witness 
Japanese turning from 
Shintoism and from the 
gods that are no gods, to 
worship our Lord; to see 
the Chinese arousing 
themselves from the tra- 
ditional lethargy and re- 
ligious indifferentism of 
their race, to give them- 
selves to the service of 
Jesus the Savior; to be- 
hold, if you could, the long lines of Fijians whose fathers 
ate the flesh of their fellows and who could not be subdued 
until the softening influences of the gospel transformed 
their hearts, to see these stalwart men listen attentively 
to the reading of God’s Word, and then bow in humble 
reverence and worship before the Lord of creation; to wit- 


CHURCH OF GOD CHAPEL AND MISSIONARY HOME 
Colon, Canal Zone 


ness in acts of loving devotion and praise those worthy 
representatives of India’s millions who have been won from 
darkest heathenism to the glorious light of the gospel of 
Christ; to see and to feel the love and gratitude poured 
out by consecrated hearts in Egypt and in Syria—to ex- 
perience these things, I say, could not but quicken the 

PAGE NINETY-ONE 


warm pulse-beats 
of religious fer- 
vor and thrill the 


soul with holy 
enthusiasm for 
that cause of 


righteousness on- 
ly which can ex- 
alt the nations. 

Oh, my breth- 
ren, let us unite 
in spreading 
the gospel of 
the kingdom 
throughout — the 
whole wide world! 
The gospel a- 
lone is the mes- 
sage of God for 
the lost, and 
Christ alone, the 
central figure of 
that gospel, can 
set men free. 
Throughout the 
whole world we have examples of its transforming power. 

The South Sea Islanders were a barbarous people, and 
cannibals. The gospel of Christ made great headway 
among them; and it was a glorious day, in 1862, when 
their king gave the people a new constitution, exchanging 
PAGE NINETY-TWO 


MEETING-HOUSE AND CONGREGATION AT GEORGETOWN, DEMERARA, 
BRITISH GUIANA, SOUTH AMERICA 
G. L. Jeffries, pastor, at reader’s left 


the heathen for a 
Christian form 
of government. 
Five thousand 
natives were as- 
sembled together 
under the spread- 
ing branches of 
a ban yon-tree, 
while at the front 
sat the king him- 
self, surrounded 
by the old war- 
riors and chiefs, 
the heroes of 
many bloody 
battles. A deep 
feeling of joy 
and thanksgivy- 
ing animated all. 
Imagine, if you 
can, the solemni- 
ty of that occa- 
sion when the 
services opened 
by the entire congregation joining in that good old hymn— 
“Jesus shall reign where’er the sun does his successive journeys run; 
His kingdom spread from shore to shore, till moons shall wax and 
Wane no more, 
ieree ance to South the princes meet, to pay their homage at his 


While Western empires own their Lord, and savage tribes attend 
his Word.” 


MrsV.CMaiden 


~ Victor Cc Maiden 


will give 


thee a@ crown 
f Life 


These faithful heroes of the cross 
made the supreme sacrifice in the 
foreign missionary service. 


‘“‘They vest from their labors; and 
their works do follow them.’’ 


_—  Myrs.Laura Jarvis 


Janes 5 Shawn 


PAGE NINETY-THREE 


THE URGENCY OF MISSIONARY ACTION 


By E. E. Byrum 


HE Missionary Board is not a publishing company. 

Its principal duties lie in the distribution of the funds 
placed in its hands, to be sent where most needed in every 
mission-field, and to lend to the missionary work a helping 
hand in every possible manner. In other words, while the 
missionaries and their colaborers are toiling in the Mas- 
ter’s vinevard, the Missionary Board is their servant, and 
the servant of the people in the homeland who provide 
the means of support for foreign fields. 

One missionary wrote to the Board that in the country 
in which he tabors there is a present urgent need of the 
erection of thirteen houses of worship among the congrega- 
tions under his oversight and only a few dollars in the 
treasury. Many other fields are keenly sensible of the 
same pressing responsibilities. 

The workers on the field inform the Board of some of 
their urgent needs, and we realize that others are anxious 
to learn of the situation. However, only a brief account 
and presentation has been given in this book. 

The support and care of the missionaries sent to for- 
eign fields rest largely upon the people in the homeland. 
Those chosen messengers are there, ofttimes under adverse 
circumstances, to give their entire time to carry the gospel 
to the farthermost parts of the earth, and we should con- 
secrate at least a portion of our time each week or month 
PAGE NINETY-FOUR 


to aid them in their undertakings. Furthermore, we 
should not neglect to have its proceeds sent to them regu- 
larly throughout the entire year. 

In the days of the apostles the church not only felt the 
need of supplying the financial needs of those in their 
midst (Acts 4:34; 6: 2-4), but they also had a care for 
those in the regions beyond their immediate borders. In 
the days of Claudius Caesar a famine broke out in Judea, 
the brethren were in need of help. The church in Antioch 
became concerned and were ready to take action. ‘Then 
the disciples, every man according to his ability, deter- 
mined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in 
Judea” (Acts 11: 27-30). 

At another time there was a great need of help among 
the brethren at Jerusalem and the apostle Paul made earn- 
est appeals, not in Judea, where the people were suffering, 
but he went in person to Macedonia and Achaia and made 
stirring speeches, urging immediate action; he gave orders 
to the congregations in Galatia, and wrote to the church 
at Corinth as follows: ‘‘Now concerning the collection for 
the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Gala- 
tia, even so do ye. Upon the first day of the week let 
every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath pros- 
pered him, that there be no gatherings when I come” (1 
Corsi t62%2)? 


Paul believed in the church helping to supply the needs 
in other fields of labor, not just with one offering, but by 
laying aside something each week for that purpose. And 
the people responded liberally. In like manner we should 
get busy and not only look toward the foreign fields and 
heathen lands, but begin now and each week or month send 
our liberalities in answer to their earnest pleas, and there 


Will you be as careless about your missionary responsi- 
bilities? Every time you think about the negligence of 
that man, also think about the foreign missionary needs 
and breathe a missionary prayer. 

An estimate of the absolute financial needs of the for- 
eign missionaries and their work for the fiscal year end- 
ing June 80, 1920, was eighty-four thousand dollars. By 


will be stars in our crowns a united effort of the 
in that day of reckoning. {ET ae a ar church in America this 
i i : : budget was easily raised 
ee anaes | ees ee, out your will, Gon poreet the 2 eet Ad | ames fore pitt ieee d et 
aarti help i es | Lely in foreign lands. Include in the will the following | lars extra, as responses al- 
souls and care for the | ‘e™ | so came from some breth- 
missionaries. | According | ‘I give and bequeath to the Missionary Board of the | ren in other countries. 
to their report the Sey- | Church of God, of Anderson, Indiana, a corporation organized | Because of the increase 
enth-day Adventists, who | under and pursuant to the laws of the State of Indiana, the | of the work and financial 
number only about eighty- | AES TE ee eer ee oe eee cece ne 3 co Oe ek og ee | obligations the budget for 
nine thousand people in | ($ ), to be used for foreign missions.’’ | the fiscal year ending June 
the United States, raised j j 30, 1921, was placed at 
over one million dollars in senna ttt tnt sn —efe one hundred and twenty 


one year in their Sabbath- 

schools alone. Aside from our personal donations let us 
not forget our Sunday-schools. Not long ago I happened 
to be in a community where a man became so engrossed in 
his routine of daily work that he even forgot his wedding- 
day. When the time came and the guests arrived, the 
bridegroom was missing. A messenger was sent to bring 
him, and found him toiling away at his temporal affairs, 
and when reminded of his waiting bride, he exclaimed, “Is 
it possible? I forgot!” 


thousand dollars. This 
can easily be raised if every one will put his shoulder to 
the wheel and help. 

It is true that the needs of the homeland should not be 
neglected; but do you know that there are some people 
in this land of Bibles who have not become awakened to 
the fact that they have any responsibilities in sending the 
gospel to heathen lands, especially when it comes to giv- 
ing of their wealth? Would you be surprized to know that 
there are some who say that our duty is with our own 

PAGE NINETY-FIVE 


family, and not in foreign lands, and try to justify them- 
selves by 1 Tim. 5:8, but forget 1 John 3:17? And 
others say, “There are plenty of heathen in this country, 
so we will keep our money in our own congregation”; some 
even extend the confines of their borders as far as the 
State lines, or the United States—‘‘Thus far, and no 
further, shall we go,” they say. 

This reminds me of the story of the old man who, 
wrapped up in his own selfish home comforts, prayed, “O 
Lord, bless me and my wife, my son John and his wife, us 
four and no more. Amen.” 

Perhaps no one in the homeland feels the burden and 
needs of the foreign work more than do the Executive 
Committee of the Missionary Board, when month after 
month the needs are presented to them through letters 
from the earnest, toiling missionaries, where tribulations 
of war, famine, and pestilence have strewn hardships in 
their pathway; persecutions and sickness linger about; 


Missionary Board of the Church of God, 
Anderson, Indiana. 


Gentlemen: Enclosed please find the sum of $_................. 
for foreign missionary work, to be used where most needed. 


I shall make an effort to send a liberal donation for missions 
each month during the coming year, either directly to the Board or 
through my local church agency. 


PAGE NINETY-SIX 


death takes its toll from their midst; sometimes poverty 
and starvation stare them in the face for a time. And, 
too, these conditions, together with new openings for the 
extension of missionary work make heavy demands upon 
the treasury, whose funds are so often entirely exhausted 
and no means in sight with which to replenish. 

The last message of Jesus to his followers was, “Go ye 
therefore, and teach all nations, . . . and, lo, I am with 
you alway, even unto the end of the world.” The end of 
the world has not come yet, therefore the message is to 
us also. Could we but comprehend the full import of his 
words, surely we should be stirred to action, and in the 
spirit of the Psalmist concerning Jerusalem, our burdened 
hearts would give vent to like expression, “If I forget 
thee, O heathen lands, let my right hand forget her cun- 
ning. If I do not remember thee, O foreign fields, let my 
tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not the 
salvation of the world above my chief joy.” 


COANS I eeNeies 


Introduction —_...- pp. 3—10 West: Indies =. =... 79—89 
DADA 4 eee ee eee 11—20 Jamaica’) sas ioe ee ee 80—82 
Ching: 2 potest eee Tes ee 21—34 Trinidad 2. ee 83—84 
Australia fn. eee 35—38 Barbados: 2s) = 85—86 
Elji, LSlaAnGgs Ge eee ee 39—40 Canal Zone ¢.. 24.25 87 
India ts. 2 ee ee eee, 41—60 South America .................... 88 
ESy Dt: ee ee 61—68 Urgency of Missionary 

Sytlat-225. 3 ee ee 69—74 Action: (2-02... ees 84—96 
Burope).223..-- ee ee 75—78 Roll-Call.. .....inside back cover 


ROLL-CALL OF MINISTERS AND MISSIONARIES 


The following persons are or have been engaged in foreign service as ministers to Christian or as missionaries to non-Christian coun- 
tries in the cause represented by the Missionary Board of the Church of God. We have endeavored to make the Roll 
complete, but this is difficult owing to the fragmentary character of the earlier records. For conveni- 
ence and brevity the names of native ministers in foreign lands have been omitted. 


Abernethy Amos—India ........20.......... 1905-10 Elliott, Mrs. Georgia C.—Mexico.... Reardon, BE. A.—Egypt, 1907-8; Mis- 
ecaeLa yin Wires PCI Tie GA SHEN TCL” eh ooo ac ect SSonecee edeectaceccnbacece 1895 (?)—1910 sionary inspection-tour, . visiting 

eet POE NIC oe Se P eS ee ae oss Soe 1904-10 Forsberg, C. J.—Sweden-....1914-18, 1920-— Japan, China, Philippines, Austra- 
Achor, Geo, R.—England....1892 (?) 1893-94 Forsberg, Mrs. C. J.—Sweden............ 1920-— lia. India, Egypt, Syria, and 
Achor, Mrs. Geo. R.—England.......... 1893-94 Hagan, Mrs. Alice (Hale)—India....1907-12 British islesipes.. 28 ae 1919-20 

»Alexander, W. G.—Japan................... 1909-— Hansen, Hjalmer O.—Norway.........-.- 1920-— Reedy, E. N.—Trinidad...................... 1911-14 
Alexander, Mrs. W. G.—Japan........ 1909-— Hateh; “John “D.-—Japan:..-...2..... ...-.1909-16 Reedy, Mrs. BE. N.—Trinidad....-....... 1911-14 
Alexander, Miss Grace—Japan.......... 1909-— Heinly, F. W.—India............... .---1918-— Renbeck, Nels—Denmark ................ ,-1909-— 
Allan, Adam—British Isles....-........... 1909— Heinly, Mrs. F. W.—India... ..--1918— Renbeck, Mrs. Nels—Denmark........ 1909-— 
Allan, Mrs. Adam—British Isles...... 1909— Flenry, “Wee oo — Pn elas tee 1892 Renbeck, Miss Mary A.—Denmark....1912-13 
Allan, Miss Naomi—British Isles....1909-— . Hines, Miss Sophia—Mexico.... .--1901—2 Ring; O. *P.—Denmark.....----.cc-cucsscencece 1912-13 
Arbeiter, Karl—Switzerland ........---. 1912-20 Hunnex, Chas. F.—Chimna.....2..2.......-..- 1910- Ring, Mrs. O. T.—Denmark................ 1912-13 
Arbeiter Mrs. Karl—Switzerland...... 1912-20 Hunnex, Mrs. Annabel—China.......... 1913- Rupert; J: H.=BPEngland.....2....23 1892-(?2) 
Axup, B.. J.—British -Isles..:.:.2-2..0 1908 Hunnexs< Wm. -A.—Ching. ee 1909- Rupert, Mrs. ie—Mnegland.......- 1892-(?) 
Bailev, Geo. W.—India, 1904-5; West Hunnex. Mrs. Gloria G.—China........ 1909— Shaw, J. Frank—Barbados, Trinidad 

Paaies, missionary «trips... 3 k.- 1918 TANS le AM lea MOANA ZONGs Old 1 S40 — em ca 28 elects focal la tescncaceckentan 1911-17: > 1920— 

‘Bailey, Mrs. Geo. W.—India.............. 1904-5 Jarvis, Robert L.—India........ 1898 (?)-1910 Shaw, Mrs. Susan (Byrum)—Barba- 
Barnard, Mrs. Susie (Kraft)—India..1903-11 Jarvis, Mrs. Laura L.—India..1898 (?)-1908 CORN pee a oe ae 1920-— 
Beaver, Mrs. Katie (Diezel)—Trini- : _ Johnson, Morris—Denmark ... .---1913-15 Shiffler, Andrew—India. .---1901- 

Seer ES ST DELO - 225 -c~ on) keecc ee cees 1913-14 Knudsen, J. G.—Denmark..... -1919- Smith, F. G—Syria, with mission- 

_ Brookover, W. L.—Barbados............ 1916-— Knudsen, Mrs. Anna Sree pe ary tour to Egypt, Balkan States, 
Brookover, Mrs. W. L. —Barbados....1916— Deninark’ sess ee 1910-17; 1919- Asia Minor, Cyprus, 1912-14; mis- 
Brooks, H. A.—India, 1907-8; Brit- Kriebel, James—England. sionary inspection-tour, visiting 

OSE CGI See aa i See ae eee 1919-20 Latham, E. L.—Panama........--....- = he) Japan, China, Philippines, Austra- 
Bryant, Leroy—Barbados ........-.2.---2:- 1916-19 Laughlin, Miss Nellie S.—Syria. lia, India, Egypt, Syria, and Brit- 
Byrum, Mrs. Bessie (Hittle)— Livingston, Miss Nannie—Jamaica..1909-10 Tstiy cslegte cs ee cies ee ee eee 1919-20 

Syria oo AE see a eee 1912-14 Lunn, Mrs. Lida H.—Denmark........ 1910-17 Smith, Mrs. Birdie M.—Syria (Egypt, 
Byrum, E. E.—Missionary world- McCrie, Miss Josephine—India........ 1904-— CAVAIURSS ia eae een eas tae eee en 1912-14 

trip, 1904; Central America, Canal Maiden, Victor C.—lIndia.............2...... 1906-8 Springer, Robert P.—Germany, Rus- 

moter vweat. Indies... a 1909-10 Maiden, Mrs. Victor C.—TIndia.......... 1906-7 Side Sama teer land = a2. ee ee 1912-17 
Chambers, Miss Zuda Lee—Japan....1917— Maiden, Miss Daisy V.—China.......... 1916- Springer, Mrs. Robert P.—Germany, 
Cheatham, W. H.—British Isles........ 1906-15 Matthesen, Mrs. Lena L. (Shoff- PAUSSIAS.  WALZOLISNG> ere eee: 1912-17 
Cheatham, Mrs. W. H.—British Dan = Tal Veal Hob =g Eh OU 6 Bak eae eae Se ee ea 1893-95 Stegmann, Miss Clara—Russia........ 1908—(?) 

Th Eh 2 a a eee eee 1906-9 Maye Oban ie AUIS Cre ae cee 1917- Steimla, Frank—Trinidad.................... 1916-20 
Coplin, Geo. Q.—West indies eee May, Mrs. BE. P.—Australia................ 1917- Steimla, Mrs. Frank—Trinidad..........1916—20 

Ee ee eee 1911-13; 1916-19 Neff, Thaddeus—India, 1907-10 Trin- Stewart, Miss E. Faith—India..........1913- 
Coplin, Mrs. Geo. Q. (Smith)—We st CYT pe SORE FR aed a ee 1916- Strawn, James A.—India.................... 1906-7 

Gs Ce es 2 ee eee 911-14: 1916-19 Neff, Mrs. Thaddeus—Trinidad-....... 1916- Susag, S. O.—Denmark....:...----.:..-.--.... 1911-16 
rose, John D.—Japan..:......-...2.-........ 1919-— Nichols (-Roy), Mrs. N. Evalyn— Tallen, Jarnes—Barbados...................- 1914-16 
Crose, Mrs. John D.—Japan.... mtg 19— A805 b Rey sy ES OA a at etn tire coe oe 1904-— Tallen, Mrs. Frances—Barbados Seat 1914-16 
Daugherty, J. W.—England 1893-95 Olson, Geo. W.—Jamaica................---- 1907— Tasker, G. P.—India............ 1907-8; 1912- 
Doebert, Otto H.—Germany, Swit- Olson. Mrs. Nellie A.—Jamaica........ 1907- Tasker, Mrs. Minnie B.—India........ 1912- 

coi On 753 UY epee Sa ee eS es ae 1907— Orr, Chas} E.—Trinidad, Jamaica, Theobald, Miss Lottie (Later Mrs. 
Doebert, Mrs. Otto H.—Germany, OO Sips Abie te ES CS) ect a teteseteetn ces 1913-14 FRA SEN SS) mer CA eee sence tesen 1907-10 

SO TCG Eas | eR lr em 1907— Patterson;, D.; W.—Mexico......-..-.22_--- 1908-10 Titley, W. W.—British Isles............ 1907-8 
Duncan, N. S.—West Indies Patterson, Mrs. D. W.—Mexico........ 1908-10 uta Ga. Orta ee erate na 1897 

{Hee eae 1906, 1908-9, 1919-20 oe ieee! EA ne eA Vielguth, Geo.—Germany, (several 
Duncan, Mrs. N. S.—West Indies....1919-20 CAN SA ERM ah hl gaat pean - 225) ee a 1901-13 

i 4 Pye, Mrs. Geo. H.—Trinidad............ 1906-8 Wat Mi Belle M.—Chin 1916— 
Ebel, Wm.—Russia, Switzerland......1910-19 Rather, Archie E.—Trinidad, 1911— atson, Iss) Delle = F--na-- 
Ebel, Mrs. Wm.—Russia, Switzer- OREO Farina 2 fo 28a 1919- Winters, Miss Pina—China................ 1910-14 

RI eo 1910-20 Rather, Mrs. Rebecca (Byrum) Trin- Yoder, Miss Lydia—Trinidad........ 1906—(?) 
‘Elliott, B. F.—Mexico..... ace2-21.891=1910 idad, 1911-16; Jamaica: ....2.<.....:. 1919- Zaugs, - Ira—INGia, © 2.2-.-----ne-eene-se onsen 1906-10 


A MAN HAS NOT YET COME TO A FULL RE- 
ALIZATION OF THE MIND OF CHRIST AND THE 
MEANING OF CHRISTIANITY TILL HE HAS BOTH 
A HEART AND A PURSE FOR THE UNCONVERTED 


MASSES OF JAPAN, CHINA, INDIA, AFRICA, AND 
THE ISLANDS OF THE SEA. —Dr. Parkhurst. 


